Captain of the Steppe

✍ Scribed by Theroux, Marcel;Pavlov, Oleg;Appleby, Ian

• Publisher: And Other Stories
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 135 KB
• Series: Tales of the Last Days 1
• Category: Fiction
• City: Soviet Union, Soviet Union.
• ISBN: 1908276193

✦ Synopsis

Introduction / by Marcel Theroux -- Once Upon a Time -- Potatoes -- Comrade Skripitsyn -- A Matter of State -- Released -- A Passion for Orders -- The Whole Truth -- A New Era -- A Feat in Winter -- For Glory, and for the Peace of his Soul -- Epilogue : Ivan Yakovlevich Khabarov's Missive.;"It was easy to fall into Karabas, as easy as falling down a hole, but it was hard, to put it bluntly, to get out again. Never mind the zeks, even the soldiers were exiled ... ' Deep in the desolate steppe, Captain Khabarov waits out his service at a camp where the news arrives in bundles of last year's papers and rations turn up rotting in their trucks. The captain hopes for nothing more from life than a meagre pension and a state-owned flat. Until, one Spring, he decides to plant a field of potatoes to feed his half-starved men ... This blackly comic novel shows the unsettling consequences of thinking for yourself under the Soviet Union."--Page 4 of cover.

✦ Subjects

Soviet Union -- Fiction