The true first edition in original parts, published in four issues of the Soviet magazine «Трезвость и культура», Москва, Профиздат (Sobriety and Culture, Moscow, Trade Union Publishing):

Part 1 in № 12/1988, pp. 26-38;

Part 2 in № 1/1989, pp. 26-37;

Part 3 in № 2/1989, pp. 28-39;

Part 4 in № 3/1989, pp. 30-35.

Each issue: 260 x 200 mm; 64 pages, in pictorial wrappers, stapled.

Print run: 12/1988 — 800,525 copies; 1/1989 — 626,970 copies; 2/1989 — 635,115 copies; 3/1989 — 639,810 copies.

The first part was submitted for typesetting on October 10 and signed to print on November 28, 1988. This makes it the first officially published ‘Soviet’ edition; however, it lacks the author’s foreword and was substantially censored.

Reference:

Id., Moskva-Petushki, “Trezvost’ i kul’tura”, 12 (1988): 26-38 [introduction by S. Chuprinin, censured edition].

Id., Moskva-Petushki, “Trezvost’ i kul’tura”, 1 (1989): 26-37; 2 (1989): 28-39;  3 (1989): 30-35 [censured edition].

Contributors:

Ерофеев, Венедикт Васильевич [Yerofeyev, Venedikt] (Russian, 1938 – 1990) – author

Чупринин, Сергей Иванович (Russian, b. 1947) – preface

Басыров, Гариф Шарипович (Russian, 1944 – 2004) – artist