Title: Life in Moscow
Subtitle: Communism and now
Description: Twenty-eight short stories depict life in Moscow, USSR in the mid-1980s focussing on various aspects of everyday life from author’s own experience. Each story is narrated in a personal style ending with a scientific update on how matters have progressed in the last 25 years, showing domestic and international expansion of former true communists and currently members of “United Russia” party, , and their overwhelming and dominating endeavour for personal wealth acquisition, as the main principle of domestic and international policy.
Subjects: Communism, History of Russia, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Places: Russia, Soviet Union, Red Square, Byzantine, Shipka, Bolshoi Theater, Magadan, Moscow, Afghanistan, Ussr, USA, Europe, Kremlin, China, Germany, Gulag
People: Leonid Brezhnev, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Mikhail Gorbachev, Nikolay Gumilev, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Leonovich Pasternak, Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova, Holy Patriarch Tikhon, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910), Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977), Andrei Platonov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Maxim Gorky, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (1952-)
Time periods: 1985