--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A. Zinoviev, I've read both the pre-Gorby
> anti-Communist pieces of
> his in Commentary and Encounter, as well as his
> post-90's stuff.
Have you really? What's your opinion of the contrasts between the two depictions of Partgrad in Katastroika? Does the murder of the CP official at the beginning of Part II have any symbolic meaning? What slogans did the residents of Partgrad shout in the Middle Ages? Why did Gorbachev choose Partgrad to be a lighthouse of Perestroika?
---
Now that we have determined that Pug has actually not read any of Zinoviev's post-Soviet writing except for a little snippet that has been translated and is on the Internet, the correct answers are:
1. Katastroika is actually composed of two novels, one started in 1982 and one in 1989, Katastroika and Revolution in Tsargrad.
2. Not that I know of!
3. The slogans the inhabitants of Partgrad shouted in the Middle Ages were "Long Live Feudalism, the Shining Future of All Mankind!" and "Forward to the Victory of Serfdom!" This was when Russia was trying to catch up and overtake the developed feudal economies of the West.
4. Gorbachev chose Partgrad as the lighthouse of Perestroika because it was always at the vanguard of historical development.
Very funny book.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com