Soul by and Other Stories Andrey Platonov Laurie Essig Although the fall of communism

Although the fall of communism brought new freedom to Russian queers

Day of the Oprichnik imagines a near future too disturbing to contemplate and too close to reality to ignore

Bush desperately wanted to preserve the Soviet Union and keep Gorbachev in power

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Soul by and Other Stories Andrey Platonov Laurie Essig Although the fall of communism'For the mind, everthing is in the future' Platonov once wrote; 'for the heart, everything is in the past'. The protagonist of Soul is a young man torn between these opposing desires, sent as a kind of missionary to bring the values of modern Russia to his childhood home town in Central Asia. In this strange, haunting novella, as well as in the seven stories that accompany it, a rediscovered master of twentieth century Russian literature is shown at