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Sluzhba (civil-service post)
sluzhba
also: служба
A post in the Russian civil-service bureaucracy that employed the great majority of the educated lower-middle class; losing one's sluzhba meant losing not just income but formal rank and social identity.
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- Trouble §2 hurried off to the office
Sluzhba -- 'the service,' meaning a post in the civil-service bureaucracy that employed the great majority of Russia's educated lower-middle class. Losing one's sluzhba, as Putokhin does here, meant losing not just income but the formal rank and social identity that came with a government post; the story's whole engine of dread runs on that fact more than on the drinking itself.
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