![]() ![]() The ideology has changed somewhat, into a hodgepodge of Marxism–Leninism and Russian Orthodoxy (the Genialissimus is also Patriarch). After Vladimir Lenin's dream of the world revolution narrowed down to Joseph Stalin's theory of " Socialism in one country", Genialissimus has decided to start from building "Communism in one city", namely in Moscow.ĬPGB – The Communist party of state security (a combined Emblem of the USSR and the KGB) After the "Great August Revolution", the new leader referred to as "Genialissimus" has changed the Soviet Union. The Russian author Kartsev, living in Munich in 1982 (just like Voinovich himself), time travels to the Moscow of 2042. An extreme slavophile Sim Karnavalov (apparently a parody of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) enters Moscow on a white horse as the savior. The party is led by former KGB general Bukashin (name literally meaning "the insect") who met previously with the main character of the novel in Germany. ![]() It soon becomes clear that the political system in the country is not a utopia and that Russia is ruled by the "Communist Party of State Security" which combines the KGB, the Communist Party, and the Russian Orthodox Church. ![]() In this book, the alter ego of the author travels to the future, where he sees how communism has been successfully built in the single city of Moscow. Moscow 2042 ( Russian: Москва́ 2042, Moskva 2042) is a 1986 satirical novel (translated into English from Russian in 1987) by Vladimir Voinovich. ![]()
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