Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin non-fiction progress toward Communism was increasingly

progress toward Communism was increasingly measured by the health of its citizens' personal finances

a Muslim minority who had called for a boycott of the referendum in 2014

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a unique reference guide to cultures of writing in Russia over four hundred years

Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin non-fiction progress toward Communism was increasinglyTelluria is set in the future, when a devastating holy war between Europe and Islam has succeeded in returning the world to the torpor and disorganization of the Middle Ages. Europe, China and Russia have all broken up. The people of the world now live in an array of little nations that are like puzzle pieces, each cultivating its own ideology or identity, a neo feudal world of fads and feuds, in which no one power dominates. What does, however,