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What were Vladimir Nabokov's political views?
In 1942 Vladimir Nabokov declared: Democracy is humanity at its best ... it is the natural condition of every man ever since the human mind became conscious.“
Did Vladimir Nabokov write about politics?
Yes, in Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov proudly recounted his father's campaigns against despotism and staunch opposition to capital punishment.
Were Vladimir Nabokov's views controversial?
Vladimir Nabokov's lectures at Cornell University, as collected in Lectures on Literature, reveal his controversial ideas concerning art.
Did Vladimir Nabokov's views ever land him in trouble?
In 2010, Kitsch magazine, a student publication at Cornell, published a piece that focused on student reflections on his lectures and also explored Vladimir Nabokov's long relationship with Playboy.
Where did Vladimir Nabokov go when he left the Soviet Union?
After the withdrawal of the German Army in November 1918 and the defeat of the White Army, the Nabokovs sought exile in western Europe.
What else was interesting about Vladimir Nabokov's political views?
In the 1940s, as an émigré in America, Vladimir Nabokov would stress the connection between American and English liberal democracy and the aspirations of the short-lived Russian provisional government.

Question: Where did he escape to?
Self-contained rewrite: Where did Vladimir Nabokov escape to?