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  <title><![CDATA[Monumental Propaganda]]></title>
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  <default-description>Vladimir Voinovich, author of the classic The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, has long been acclaimed as perhaps the greatest living satirist of Russian literature. In Monumental Propaganda, he again launches a fearless and hilarious assault on the hypocrisies and corruptions of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia.</default-description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Vladimir Voinovich]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Once more, Voinovich demonstrates that he's the heir to the fine tradition of Russian satire.  The book spans a period from the disavowal of Stalin up through the present time...since Voinovich's theme is that the true nature of the people never really changes, no matter how much history sweeps by....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52044327">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the central premise of this book. Aglaya Stepanovna Revkina is a true-believing Stalinist who commissions a statue of Stalin to stand in the square of her town. The statue is widely admired as a masterpiece, but then Stalin dies and, soon after, is repudiated by the Party. The statue is remov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9216723">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Aglaya Stepanovna Revkina is a confirmed Stalinist, loving the deceased leader with a passion that crosses the line of eroticism, far greater than any love she ever felt for the man she married and later killed in the midst of a partisan act of terrorism.  When Khrushchev takes power and denounces S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2761825">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 1992</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[You have a woman who believes in and loves Stalin...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great surreal satire on the fall of the Soviet Union and the communist dream. A party functionary keeps a (removed) statue of Stalin in her flat- he speaks to her in the subconscious, madness ensues. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Monumental Propaganda was one of my favorite books of 2006. Funny, biting and bittersweet it's a great satire of recent Soviet/Russian history with a great leading lady, the unlikely Aglaya. Loved it!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Highly amusing look at life in post-Communist Russia; satirical, exaggerated, absurd -- good.  Recommended to anyone who finds world news appalling but amusing/bemusing.  ]]></body>
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