page_title: Moscow 2042
section_title: Plot summary
hierarchical_section_title: Moscow 2042 / Plot summary
caption_attribution_description: Русский: КПГБ СССР — Коммунистическая Партия Государственной Безопасности Союза Советских Социалистических Республик. Образ Герба где власть взяли в свои руки органы Госбезопасности и спецслужбы стран СНГ и России для восстановления Советского Союза. Создан по книге МОСКВА 2042 English: KPGB — The Communist Party Of State Security Of The Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics. The image of the coat of arms where power is taken in hand by the security organs and special services of the CIS countries and Russia to restore the Soviet Union. Created on the book of MOSCOW 2042
context_page_description: Moscow 2042 is a 1986 satirical novel by Vladimir Voinovich. 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, but 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. The party is led by former KGB general Bukashin who met previously with the main character of the novel in Germany. An extreme slavophile Sim Karnavalov enters Moscow on a white horse as the savior.
  Voinovich wrote this book in 1982.
context_section_description: The Russian author Kartsev, living in Munich in 1982 (just like Voinovich himself), time travels to the Moscow of 2042. After the "Great August Revolution", the new leader referred to as "Genialissimus" has changed the Soviet Union... up to a certain point. 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.
  The ideology has changed somewhat, into a hodgepodge of Marxism-Leninism and Russian Orthodoxy (Genialissimo himself is also Patriarch). The country is ruled by CPGB – The Communist Party of State Security, a merger of the Communist Party and KGB. The decay from which the Soviet Union suffered has worsened. The rest of the Soviet Union, where people barely survive, has been separated by a Berlin type of wall from the "paradise" of Moscow, where communism has been realised. Within the wall everyone gets everything by the communist principle, "according to his needs", though their needs are not decided by themselves, but by the Genialissimus. Most people have "ordinary needs", but a chosen few have "extraordinary needs". For the first-mentioned group, life is dismal even within the privileged "Moscorep" (Moscow Communist Republic). The situation finally gets so desperate that people throw themselves in the arms of the "liberator", a dissident writer and acquaintance of Kartsev, the Slavophile Sim Karnavalov (an apparent mockery of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn), who enters Moscow on a white horse and proclaims himself Tsar Serafim the First. Thus, communism is abandoned and society digresses back into feudal autocracy.
caption: CPGB – The Communist party of state security (combined Emblem of the USSR – KGB)
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