The Commissariat of Enlightenment
Original title: The commissariat of enlightenment
earliest edition we have, 2003 HarperCollins Publishers, 2009
"Ken Kalfus gives us an epic story about the death of two Russian visionaries, the life of a radical antihero, and the birth of a new kind of power.". "It begins in 1910 in Astapovo, a remote Russian railway station, where Leo Tolstoy lies dying of pneumonia. Members of the press from around the world have descended upon this sleepy hamlet to record his passing for a public suddenly ravenous for celebrity news. They...
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