Life in Moscow; Communism and now

Description:

Twenty-eight short stories depict life in Moscow, USSR in the mid-1980s focussing on various aspects of everyday life from author’s own experience. Each story is narrated in a personal style ending with a scientific update on how matters have progressed in the last 25 years, showing domestic and international expansion of former true communists and currently members of “United Russia” party, , and their overwhelming and dominating endeavour for personal wealth acquisition, as the main principle of domestic and international policy.

subjects: Communism,  History of Russia,  Communist Party of the Soviet Union

People: Leonid Brezhnev,  Joseph Stalin (1879-1953),  Mikhail Gorbachev,  Nikolay Gumilev,  Osip Mandelstam,  Marina Tsvetaeva,  Boris Leonovich Pasternak,  Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova,  Holy Patriarch Tikhon,  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881),  Anton Chekhov,  Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910),  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977),  Andrei Platonov,  Mikhail Bulgakov,  Felix Dzerzhinsky,  Maxim Gorky,  Zbigniew Brzezinski,  Dmitry Merezhkovsky,  Yuri Andropov,  Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko,  Mikhail Zhvanetsky,  Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (1952-)

Places: Russia,  Soviet Union,  Red Square,  Byzantine,  Shipka,  Bolshoi Theater,  Magadan,  Moscow,  Afghanistan,  Ussr,  USA,  Europe,  Kremlin,  China,  Germany,  Gulag

Times: 1985