a baroque Stalinist dream whose iconic image was reproduced throughout the Soviet Union
an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen years that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag
topped off with a digestif of winter punch or blackcurrant vodka
Soviet workers rapidly evacuated factories
” In The Good Life Elsewhere
The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems translated by Paul Schmidt journalism a baroque Stalinist dream whoseIn the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians, a place to meet, drink, read, brawl, celebrate, and stage performances of all kinds. It has since become a symbol of the extraordinary literary ferment of that time. It was then that Alexander Blok composed his apocalyptic sequence Twelve; that the futurists Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky exploded language