Vladimir Voinovich

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin is a 1969-1975 novel by Soviet dissident writer Vladimir Voinovich. Voinovich wrote two sequels to the novel Pretender to the Throne: The Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, 1979, and Displaced Person, 2007; together, the trilogy constitutes …

Moscow 2042 is a 1986 novel by Vladimir Voinovich. In this book, the alter ego of the author travels to the future, where he sees how communism has been built up in Moscow: at first, it seems the government has actually been successful in doing so. But slowly it becomes clear that it is not really a utopia after all. …