Download or read book Peltse written by Volodymyr Dibrova and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two novellas in which a Ukrainian writer tells how the Soviet system was sustained by individuals who never truly chose to support it, but simply lacked the courage to oppose it. Peltse portrays the formation of an average apparatchik, Pentameron is on five scientists dreaming of escape, but incapable of action.