Moscow 2042

Interesting Facts

• The book is a satirical dystopian novel that mocks Soviet reality and bureaucracy.
• The protagonist, writer Vitaly Kartsev, travels to the future in a time machine and finds himself in Moscow in the year 2042.
• In the future, Moscow is depicted as a city where communism has reached its extreme form, and all aspects of life are controlled by the state.
• The novel features a character named Bukashkin, who is a parody of Vladimir Lenin.
• The book was banned in the Soviet Union and first published abroad.
• The novel contains numerous allusions and parodies of real political figures and events of the time.
• Voinovich uses grotesque and absurdity to highlight the ridiculousness and cruelty of the totalitarian regime.