The Russian novelist who’s seen it all coming
Our history shows that most of the people
can be fooled for a very long time
Last month, as Russia began its takeover of Crimea and Cold War II hung in the air, about a hundred people gathered at Columbia’s Harriman Institute to hear an 81-year-old Russian visitor whom some credit with uncanny prophetic powers. Vladimir Voinovich, one of the great Soviet-era dissident writers, has several novels and nonfiction books to his name, not to mention numerous short stories and essays. But without a doubt, the one work about which he is asked most is his 1986 novel Moscow 2042. In this futuristic satire, the time-traveling narrator finds himself in a Russian state whose ideology is a fantastic hybrid of communism and Orthodox Christianity—and whose supreme ruler, revered as “The Genialissimo,” was once, like Vladimir Putin, a KGB officer stationed in East Germany.
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