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Book The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

Download or read book The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin written by Владимир Войнович and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life   Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

Download or read book The Life Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin written by Vladimir Voĭnovich and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he is sent to an obscure village with one week's ration of canned meat and orders to guard a downed plane. Apparently forgotten by his unit, Chonkin resumes his life as a peasant and passes the war peacefully tending the village postmistress's garden. Just after the German invasion, the secret police discover this mysterious soldier lurking behind the front line. Their pursuit of Chonkin and his determined resistance lead to wild skirmishes and slapstick encounters. Vladimir Voinovich's hilarious satire ridicules everything that was sacred in the Soviet Union, from agricultural reform to the Red Army to Stalin, in a refreshing combination of dissident conscience and universal humor.

Book The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

Download or read book The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin written by Vladimir Vojnovič and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Displaced Person

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vladimir Voinovich
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2012-10-31
  • ISBN : 0810126621
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book A Displaced Person written by Vladimir Voinovich and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Displaced Person follows a series of random events that brings Chonkin to the United States, where he becomes a farmer and, eventually, a member of a congressional delegation sent to the Soviet Union in 1989, during perestroika, to discuss agriculture with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Book Life of Ivan Chonkin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vladimir Voinovich
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982-11-01
  • ISBN : 9780374517250
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Life of Ivan Chonkin written by Vladimir Voinovich and published by . This book was released on 1982-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

Download or read book The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin written by Vladimir Voinovich and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1982-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **** Reprint of the Farrar, Strauss and Giroux translation of 1977. Cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Pretender to the Throne

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vladimir Voĭnovich
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780810112445
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Pretender to the Throne written by Vladimir Voĭnovich and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hilarious novel follows the continuing adventures of the simple peasant Ivan Chonkin, who has been arrested as a traitor to the motherland after spending World War II happily tending a garden. Lacking evidence against him, the bumbling bureaucrats base their case on a rumor in his home village that he is the illegitimate son of a prince. The comic case of mistaken identity escalates as they accuse this unlikely prince of working in league with Hitler to restore the monarchy. In this sequel to The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich ridicules everything that was sacred in the Soviet Union - including the army, the justice system, the press, and Stalin - in a refreshing combination of dissident conscience and universal humor.

Book The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin by Vladimir Voinovich

Download or read book The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin by Vladimir Voinovich written by Sandra Mary Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monumental Propaganda

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vladimir Voinovich
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Release : 2007-12-18
  • ISBN : 0307426939
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Monumental Propaganda written by Vladimir Voinovich and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Vladimir Voinovich, one of the great satirists of contemporary Russian literature, comes a new comic novel about the absurdity of politics and the place of the individual in the sweep of human events. Monumental Propaganda, Voinovich’s first novel in twelve years, centers on Aglaya Stepanovna Revkina, a true believer in Stalin, who finds herself bewildered and beleaguered in the relative openness of the Khrushchev era. She believes her greatest achievement was to have browbeaten her community into building an iron statue of the supreme leader, which she moves into her apartment after his death. And despite the ebb and flow of political ideology in her provincial town, she stubbornly, and at all costs, centers her life on her private icon. Voinovich’s humanely comic vision has never been sharper than it is in this hilarious but deeply moving tale–equally all-seeing about Stalinism, the era of Khrushchev, and glasnost in the final years of Soviet rule. The New York Times Book Review called his classic work, The Life & Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, “a masterpiece of a new form–socialist surrealism . . . the Soviet Catch-22 written by a latter-day Gogol." In Monumental Propaganda we have the welcome return of a truly singular voice in world literature.

Book The Fur Hat

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vladimir Voinovich
  • Publisher : HarperVia
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780156340304
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Fur Hat written by Vladimir Voinovich and published by HarperVia. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this satire of Soviet life, novelist Yefim Rakhlin, learns that the Writers' Union is goiving out fur hats to its members according to their importance.

Book Moscow 2042

    Book Details:
  • Author : Владимир Войнович
  • Publisher : HarperVia
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Moscow 2042 written by Владимир Войнович and published by HarperVia. This book was released on 1990 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1982, just two years before that made famous by Orwell. An exiled Soviet writer discovers that a German travel agency is booking flights through a time warp to a variety of tempting sites and dates in the future. Moscow? The year 2042? How can he resist? Afterword by the Author. Translated by Richard Lourie.

Book Age of Delirium

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  • Author : David Satter
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 0300147899
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book Age of Delirium written by David Satter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first state in history to be based explicitly on atheism, the Soviet Union endowed itself with the attributes of God. In this book, David Satter shows through individual stories what it meant to construct an entire state on the basis of a false idea, how people were forced to act out this fictitious reality, and the tragic human cost of the Soviet attempt to remake reality by force. “I had almost given up hope that any American could depict the true face of Russia and Soviet rule. In David Satter’s Age of Delirium, the world has received a chronicle of the calvary of the Russian people under communism that will last for generations.†?—Vladimir Voinovich, author of The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin “Spellbinding. . . . Gives one a visceral feel for what it was like to be trapped by the communist system.†?—Jack Matlock, Washington Post “Satter deserves our gratitude. . . . He is an astute observer of people, with an eye for essential detail and for human behavior in a universe wholly different from his own experience in America.†?—Walter Laqueur, Wall Street Journal “Every page of this splendid and eloquent and impassioned book reflects an extraordinarily acute understanding of the Soviet system.†?—Jacob Heilbrunn, Washington Times

Book Omon Ra

    Book Details:
  • Author : Viktor Pelevin
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780811213646
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Omon Ra written by Viktor Pelevin and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A satire about the Soviet space program finds Omon, who has dreamed of space flight all of his life, enrolled as a cosmonaut only to learn that his task will be piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar vehicle to the Moon and remaining there to die.

Book The Salt of the Earth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jozef Wittlin
  • Publisher : Pushkin Press
  • Release : 2021-01-12
  • ISBN : 1782274723
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book The Salt of the Earth written by Jozef Wittlin and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic pacifist novel by a major Polish writer, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize At the beginning of the twentieth century the villagers of the Carpathian mountains lead a simple life, much as they have always done. Among them is Piotr, a bandy-legged peasant, who wants nothing more from life than an official railway cap, a cottage, and a bride with a dowry. But then the First World War reaches the mountains and Piotr is drafted into the army. All the weight of imperial authority is used to mould him into an unthinking fighting machine, forced to fight a war he does not understand, for interests other than his own. The Salt of the Earth is a classic war novel and a powerfully pacifist tale about the consequences of war for ordinary men.