Chevengur by Anthony Olcott, Andrei Platonov

333 pages first pub 1928 (editions)

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Chevengur is a massive series of satirical scenes from Soviet life during the New Economic Policy instituted by Lenin in the 1920s, the story of the efforts of provincial builders of Communism, but in their grotesque Utopia, Cheka murders are the ...

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