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	Vladimir Voinovich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich (alternatively spelled Voynovich, ru: Владимир Войнович, born September 26, 1932 in Dushanbe) is a prominent Russian writer and a dissident.
		Voinovich is famous for his satiric fiction but also wrote some poetry.
		For his writing and participation in the human rights movement, Voinovich was excluded from the Soviet Writers' Union in 1974, his telephone line was cut off in 1976 and he and his family were forced to emigrate in 1980.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vladimir_Voinovich (429 words)

	Vladimir Voinovich: Monumental Propaganda - Bøger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		From Vladimir Voinovich, one of the great satirists of contemporary Russian literature, comes a new comic novel about the absurdity of politics and the place of the individual in the sweep of human events.
		Voinovich’s humanely comic vision has never been sharper than it is in this hilarious but deeply moving tale–equally all-seeing about Stalinism, the era of Khrushchev, and glasnost in the final years of Soviet rule.
		Vladimir Voinovich, in his first novel in twelve years, begins this satiric tale in Dolgov, a small town outside Moscow in 1949, when Aglaya Stepanova Revkina, a devoted follower of Josef Stalin, persuades the Committee to erect a piece of "monumental propaganda," a statue of Stalin, in the square.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/book_details.php/0375412352\|books\| (1358 words)

	Monumental Propaganda by Vladimir Voinovich: Reviews
		In spite of the somewhat unsatisfactory finale, Voinovich's novel is otherwise a fine study of the peculiar buffoonery of Soviet life.
		Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and ''Monumental Propaganda'' is a novel that slashes and rips.
		The weakness of this novel is not that Voinovich has become any less adept at describing and dismantling the hypocrisy of Homo sovieticus: Many individual scenes here are close to the level of his best work.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/voinovichvladimir/monumentalpropaganda (452 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Vladimir Voinovich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich has become one of the most significant writers of comic fiction in Russia in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond.
		In the early 1960s, Voinovich appeared, at least on the surface, to be a model Soviet writer and, indeed, on several occasions he has freely confessed to his attempts to work within the establishment rules.
		Voinovich publicly defended Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but eventually became disenchanted with what he saw as the myth that grew up around him and in which Solzhenitsyn himself, Voinovich felt, colluded.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5476 (2215 words)

	Vladimir Voinovich: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Voinovich is famous for his satiric fiction (fiction: A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact) but also wrote some poetry (poetry: Literature in metrical form).
		Between 1951 to 1955, Voinovich also served in the Soviet Army (Soviet Army: the short forms red army and rkka refer to the "workers and peasants red army",...
		Voinovich helped publish Vasily Grossman (Vasily Grossman: more facts about this subject) 's famous novel (novel: A extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story) Life and Fate by smuggling
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/vladimir_voinovich (348 words)

	Russia, Vladimir Voinovich, New Book - JRL 8-27-04
		Voinovich has always been interested in the life of the everyday person, a life that totalitarianism can turn into utter farce.
		But where Aglaya willingly commits herself to internal exile when Stalin is debunked, Voinovich was forcefully driven from his country by threats, by harassment that resulted in the death of several family members, and (he believes) by a doctored KGB cigarette that nearly killed him.
		Despite his graver gravitas, Voinovich is part of the same era and school of thought as the American satirists Hunter S. Thompson and Kurt Vonnegut, and Andrew Bromfield's translation skips along like a wisecracking schoolgirl who has the goods on her elders.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/8345-19.cfm (886 words)

	Powell's Books - Monumental propaganda by Vladimir Voinovich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Voinovich's humanely comic vision has never been sharper than it is in this hilarious but deeply moving tale — equally all-seeing about Stalinism, the era of Khrushchev, and glasnost in the final years of Soviet rule.
		In spite of the somewhat unsatisfactory finale, Voinovich's novel is otherwise a fine study of the peculiar buffoonery of Soviet life, with its fearful conformities, petty dissidents and its decadent final decades, which Voinovich very justly terms 'somnambulistic.' Agent, Georges Borchardt.
		Vladimir Voinovich is also the author of Pretender to the Throne: The Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, The Fur Hat, Moscow 2042, The Anti-Soviet Soviet Union, The Ivankiad, and In Plain Russian: Stories.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0375412352-0 (777 words)

	Monumental Propaganda by Vladimir Voinovich: Reviews
		Not Voinovich's very best, but a welcome addition to a brilliantly subversive and hugely entertaining body of work.
		Monumental Propaganda is written as a satire, and its wacky characters and ludicrous plot lines contain all of the elements of what should be a classic comic novel.
		Voinovich commits a cardinal sin of satire: making explicit what is implicit in his mockery.
	metacritic.com /books/authors/voinovichvladimir/monumentalpropaganda (452 words)

	CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times
		Vladimir Voinovich trades in his pen for a paintbrush.
		Voinovich, who now splits his time between Moscow and Munich, became a member of the Writers' Union in 1962.
		Currently the writer is working on an autobiographical novel titled "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of the Writer Voinovich," which is being published in installments in the Noviye Izvestiya newspaper.
	context.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2005/03/25/103.html (939 words)

	Authors, A-Z > V > Voinovich, Vladimir
		Voinovich has always drawn his pen at the cronyism, the arrogance, the preening sense of grasping materialism to acquire western clothes, food, and cigarettes and yes the blatant and latent anti-Semitism that has reared its ugly head at regular intervals in the last 100 years.
		In a famous response to the statement of Leonid Brezhnev that Voinovich brought harm to the prestige of the Soviet government, Voinovich published a reply that said simply: "I have not undermined the prestige of the Soviet government.
		Voinovich keeps the pot and the plot bubbling along nicely as the story reaches its bittersweet climax.
	www.wenbook.co.uk /nBooks/588248_1.html (1573 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Monumental Propaganda by Vladimir Voinovich, reviewed by The New Republic Online
		One of Voinovich's more interesting conceits is to make Aglaya -- the unpleasant, narrow-minded, and vicious former apparatchik -- the only character in his book who is endowed with a semblance of integrity and dignity.
		Voinovich's novel is always engaging and often hilarious.
		Voinovich has a flair for an easily forgotten aspect of life under communism: its absolute idiocy that left normal, educated adults on both sides of the political divide eagerly trading in clichés and communicating in a crude and juvenile language.
	www.powells.com /review/2005_02_10.html (2761 words)

	Monumental Propaganda - Vladimir Voinovich
		True, her philosophy is repellent and outdated, but, as Voinovich tells it, so is everybody else's, even his own.
		One is Aglaya's early nemesis, Mark Semyonovich Shubkin, who begins as a teacher much more willing to test the bounds of the permissible (but only the bounds), and who becomes Aglaya's neighbour, then a full-fledged dissident author, then emigrates to Israel.
		Russian author Vladimir Voinovich (Wladimir Woinowitsch) was born in 1932.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/soviet/voinovv1.htm (1419 words)

	Life of the Party (washingtonpost.com)
		Monumental Propaganda, the latest novel by Vladimir Voinovich, one of the best-known and best-loved Soviet emigré writers, differs from other satires of Soviet life in that it takes that irrelevance -- of ideas, of philosophies, of people, of morality -- as its theme.
		Mercilessly, Voinovich caricatures the cowardly toadies whose views changed along with the politics of the times, poking fun at their provincial manners and pompous declarations.
		Among them are Shaleiko, the local party bigwig, whose slapstick 1956 tryst with Aglaya is ruined at the climactic moment by the sound of a clandestine radio, blaring through the thin walls of her apartment.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A7459-2004Jul22.html (1346 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Monumental Propaganda: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		From Ivan Chonkin, the Fur Hat, to the Ivankiad, Voinovich took dead aim at the Soviet bureaucracy.
		Voinovich became as much a threat to the Soviet regime as any of the other, more somber authors.
		Throughout the novel Voinovich focuses on Aglaya, from the "glories" of the Stalin Era of the late 1940s, through Krushchev and his fall from grace, then Brezhnev and his successors, including Gorbachev, and on up to the present.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375412352 (2036 words)

	0151624445 - Moscow 2042 by Vladimir Voinovich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		And so begins Vladimir Voinovich's satiric -- and, as current events would cast it, prophetic -- tale of life in the USSR in the not-so-distant future.".
		Voinovich has been called Russia's greatest living satirist and this comedic novel is a parody of Orwell's 1984.
		Voinovich was a dissident Soviet author forced into exile.
	www.biblio.com /isbn/0151624445.html (1205 words)

	The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > 'Monumental Propaganda': La Femme Nikita
		She is Aglaya Revkina, the indomitable former partisan who was briefly introduced in Voinovich's first novel, ''The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin'' (1979), as the hard-as-nails Stalinist director of a regional children's home and the wife of a district party secretary during World War II.
		By the time of the Moscow demonstration, the long-widowed Aglaya is 80 years old and livid at the collapse of Soviet power; in her shrinking frame she marshals the furies of her entire generation, which bested fascism only to be defeated by consumerism.
		Voinovich's sensitivity to her human frailties wins Aglaya the sympathy of the reader; at the same time, her generation's frustration with democracy makes her his target of ridicule as he excoriates what he believes is the Russian affinity for despotism.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/08/08/books/review/08KALFUSL.html?ex=1249876800&en=1c74fb66de53948a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt (737 words)

	Amazon.com: Fur Hat: Books: Vladimir Voinovich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		``Voinovich's deadpan humor and impeccable timing make his latest satirical look at the Soviet Union particularly engaging; the novel also somberly points out the discriminations to which Jewish intellectuals are still subjected,'' said PW.
		Vladimir Voinovich is the premier Russian wit of the 20th century.
		This novella is fresh and sharp, with a hint of the Soviet sarcasm that Voinovich is all too famous for.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156340305?v=glance (1647 words)

	Amazon.com: Moscow 2042: Books: Vladimir Voinovich,Richard Lourie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Voinovich's sexism, combined with the genre's tendency towards one-dimensional characters, defuses his parable; but his acute depictions of bureaucratic minutiae and a wild-eyed messiah generate a current of entertaining satire.
		The famous dissident writer Vladimir Voinovich wrote this book a couple of years before the downfall of the Sovient Union.
		This novel is a masterpiece of satire, almost as funny as "The life of Iwan Chonkin" and "The pretender to the trone" of the same author.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156621657?v=glance (1596 words)

	Vladimir Voinovich: Pretender to the Throne : Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (European Classics) - Bøger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vladimir Voinovich: Pretender to the Throne : Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (European Classics) - Bøger
		Vladimir Voinovich: Pretender to the Throne : Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (European Classics)
		Voinovich does not spare anyone or anything: Joseph Stalin, the Soviet military planning, and the prison system--all are criticized.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/book_details.php/0810112442\|books\| (391 words)

	Pretender to the Throne, Vladimir Voinovich
		This hilarious novel following the continuing adventures of Ivan Chonkin, a simple peasant who has been arrested as a traitor after spending World War II happily tending a garden.
		In this sequel to The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Vladimir Voinovich ridicules everything sacred to the Soviet Union--the army, the justice system, the press, and Stalin himself--in a refreshing combination of dissident conscience and universal humor.
		"[Voinovich] is unique among literary dissidents in his ability to highlight the many shortcomings and paradoxes of the Soviet system without engaging in the stridency and bitterness of writers such as Solzhenitsyn." --Nation
	nupress.northwestern.edu /title.cfm?ISBN=0-8101-1244-2 (141 words)

	Random House \| Books \| Monumental Propaganda by Vladimir Voinovich
		“If Frank Capra had been an acerbic Russian novelist and not a sunny American filmmaker, he might have written novels like Vladimir Voinovich's: funny, antic works that pit the little man against the system, ordinary folks against bureaucratic institutions and corrupt authorities.
		Voinovich caricatures the cowardly toadies whose views changed along with the politics of the times, poking fun at their provincial manners and pompous declarations.”--Anne Applebaum, The Washington Post
		Voinovich is wonderfully deft at balancing the grotesque and the realistic.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl/9780375412356.html (502 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Adventures of a True Believer
		by Vladimir Voinovich, translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield
		If Russia weren't governed by fools and reprobates, if the roads were smooth and wide and free of bandits, if Russia were suddenly a modern European country as far removed from Stalin's legacy as today's Germany is from Hitler's, three groups of citizens would suffer the most: corrupt traffic cops, oligarchs, and satirists.
		Of this last group, Vladimir Voinovich is possibly the most important Russian satirical writer of the last fifty years, and given the absurdity and repressiveness that characterized those fifty years, one of the most subversive writers in the nation's history.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/17998 (334 words)

	Monumental Propaganda Book - Reviews - Description - Martial Arts Books & Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (European Classics) by Vladimir Voinovich (Book)
		Pretender to the Throne : Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (European Classics) by Vladimir Voinovich (Book)
		Keywords: Fiction, Fiction - General, Literary, Voinovich, Vladimir - Prose and Criticism, Fiction / Literary
	www.eisshinryu.com /martial/vladimir-voinovich-monumental-propaganda-asin-0375412352.html (389 words)

	Monumental Propaganda -- book review
		There is nothing inevitable about what Voinovich has done: he’s written a novel about a woman who loves and believes in Stalin.
		Although in the West not quite as well known a genocidal demon as Hitler, Stalin is still pretty much in everyone’s top-ten list of all time murderous bastards.
		In other words, Voinovich has managed to portray unsympathetic characters (Stalin, the woman who loves him) in a sympathetic way without robbing them of their bastardliness.
	www.curledup.com /monuprop.htm (1223 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin - Vladimir Voinovich - ...
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		Their pursuit of Chonkin and his determined resistance lead to wild skirmishes and slapstick encounters.
		Vladimir Voinovich's hilarious satire ridicules everything that was sacred in the Soviet Union, from agricultural reform to the Red Army to Stalin, in a refreshing combination of dissident conscience and universal humor.
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