Homo Sovieticus - Hardcover

Zinoviev, Aleksandr

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 057503548X ISBN 13: 9780575035485

Publisher: V. Gollancz, 1985

Synopsis

Exploring the nature of a new people created by Soviet communal society, this novel centers on a group of Soviet emigres living in a boarding house in Germany, each seeking to establish a niche in the West

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

From Publishers Weekly:

Like his creator, the narrator of this unclassifiable workhe himself constructs the lumbering term "novel-denunciation-report-tyrade"is a "Soviet emigre in the West" living in a pension in West Berlin with others of his ilk bearing such tags as the Cynic, the Joker, the Whiner, the Dissident. The slight fictive elements are not significant here; what matters is that an incisive intelligence delivers a blistering denunciation of the Soviet system. Dripping venom, the narrator ranges in systematic fashion through the actions of the communist regime from 1917 to the present, excoriating Soviet history. Seen through the cold eye of the observer, the System is duplicitous, corrupt, inefficient and boring, when it is not simply maddening. This furious, outraged, highly theatrical monologue documenting the emergence of the New Man, Homo sovieticus, will seem a definitive portrait to those familiar with the ways of the Kremlin.
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About this edition

• Publisher: V. Gollancz
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 057503548X
• ISBN 13: 9780575035485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 206