Moscow 2042 by Vladimir Voinovich
A biting satirical dystopia that imagines a near-future Moscow transformed into a grotesque totalitarian spectacle, where a hybrid regime fuses bombastic ideology, cults of personality and absurd bureaucracy; the narrator tours a city of omnipresent propaganda, surveillance, black-market life and surreal official rituals, encountering caricatures of leaders and institutions as the novel skewers the moral decay, hypocrisy and self-destructiveness of authoritarian systems while mixing dark humor, fantastical episodes and sharp political critique.
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- Published
- 1986
- Nationality
- Russian
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- Original Language
- Russian
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- Moskva 2042
- Москва 2042
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