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...less than $6,000-a-year Deputy's job. With pay so small, why was the bribe so high? Explained one candid hopeful: "Any Deputy is sure to be invited to become a bank director-at $4,000 a year. Also, there's always the wayward young man whose parents will pay $1,500 to spring him from jail. And then a Deputy gets immunity from police searches of his car. Any time he drives out to the country, he can load up with $1,000 worth of hashish...
...Wayward Comrade and the Commissars, by Yurii Olesha. The author later found it advisable to become a docile party-liner, but in the 1920s, when he wrote the short fiction pieces in this paperback collection, he was one of Communism's most caustic satirists...
...Wayward Comrade and the Commissars, by Yurii Olesha. The author later found it advisable to become a docile party-liner, but in the 1920s, when he wrote the short fiction pieces in this paper- back collection, he was one of Communism's most caustic satirists...
...Wayward Comrade and the Commissars, by Yurii Olesha. The author is now a docile party-liner, but in 1927, when he wrote the short novel Envy, which heads this paperback collection, he was a satirist well able to see the terrors of the new robot society...
...Wayward Comrade and the Commissars, by Yurii Olesha. The author is now a docile party-liner, but in 1927, when he wrote the short novel Envy, which heads this paperbacked collection, he was a satirist well able to see the terrors of the new robot society...