Happy Moscow
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Originally published | 1996 |
Authors | Andrei Platonov |
Genres | Literary Fiction |
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ID | 3000586 |
About Happy Moscow
Moscow in the 1930s is the consummate symbol of the Soviet paradise, a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin's words, "life has become better, life has become merrier". In Happy Moscow Platonov exposes the gulf between this premature triumphalism and the harsh reality of low living standards and even lower expectations. . . .