A Russian course или как американцы учат русский -- These pages are fascinating for the insight they give into "official" socialist life in the Soviet Union of the 1970s. I particularly like the contrast between "shock-workers" and "loafers," as well as references to the female concrete workers reading "Female Concrete Worker Magazine" for entertainment. One wonders if this was intended as biting satire or if it was composed as unintended self-parody by some apparatchik.
