Sarah D. Phillips is Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, USA. She is the author of two award-winning books, Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine (2008) and Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine (2010).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsNote on Translation and TransliterationList of AbbreviationsList of Soviet and Russian Journals and Publishing Houses in English1. Introduction2. Interlude: 48 hours in Leningrad, 19673. The Translator4. Interlude: Rendezvous in Paris, 19725. Vonnegut and Soviet Readers6. Interlude: Five Days in Moscow, 19747. The Wanderings of Billy Pilgrim, or Cinderella in the Concentration Camp8. Finding Comrade Vonnegut: Vonnegut and His Soviet Critics9. Interlude: No Free Breakfast in the Land of Lenin, 197710. Vonnegut and the Dissidents11. Conclusion: Back to the FutureBibliographyIndex

In this well-researched and entertaining book, Sarah D. Phillips shows how Kurt Vonnegut’s profound whimsy and playful postmodernism resonated with Soviet readers. Slavists will get new insights into the late Soviet reading public, and Vonnegut fans will finally learn why the author was such a fan of Rita Rait.

Sarah D. Phillips is Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, USA. She is the author of two award-winning books, Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine (2008) and Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine (2010).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsNote on Translation and TransliterationList of AbbreviationsList of Soviet and Russian Journals and Publishing Houses in English1. Introduction2. Interlude: 48 hours in Leningrad, 19673. The Translator4. Interlude: Rendezvous in Paris, 19725. Vonnegut and Soviet Readers6. Interlude: Five Days in Moscow, 19747. The Wanderings of Billy Pilgrim, or Cinderella in the Concentration Camp8. Finding Comrade Vonnegut: Vonnegut and His Soviet Critics9. Interlude: No Free Breakfast in the Land of Lenin, 197710. Vonnegut and the Dissidents11. Conclusion: Back to the FutureBibliographyIndex

In this well-researched and entertaining book, Sarah D. Phillips shows how Kurt Vonnegut’s profound whimsy and playful postmodernism resonated with Soviet readers. Slavists will get new insights into the late Soviet reading public, and Vonnegut fans will finally learn why the author was such a fan of Rita Rait.

Sarah D. Phillips is Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, USA. She is the author of two award-winning books, Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine (2008) and Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine (2010).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsNote on Translation and TransliterationList of AbbreviationsList of Soviet and Russian Journals and Publishing Houses in English1. Introduction2. Interlude: 48 hours in Leningrad, 19673. The Translator4. Interlude: Rendezvous in Paris, 19725. Vonnegut and Soviet Readers6. Interlude: Five Days in Moscow, 19747. The Wanderings of Billy Pilgrim, or Cinderella in the Concentration Camp8. Finding Comrade Vonnegut: Vonnegut and His Soviet Critics9. Interlude: No Free Breakfast in the Land of Lenin, 197710. Vonnegut and the Dissidents11. Conclusion: Back to the FutureBibliographyIndex

In this well-researched and entertaining book, Sarah D. Phillips shows how Kurt Vonnegut’s profound whimsy and playful postmodernism resonated with Soviet readers. Slavists will get new insights into the late Soviet reading public, and Vonnegut fans will finally learn why the author was such a fan of Rita Rait.