How one Man's Rip-Roaring Romp through an Existential Wasteland Ended in a Bungled Attempt to Bump off the Exceptionally Great Leader of Mother Russia.
This hilarious and poignant anti-historical novel is a vertiginous journey through the Russian revolution, Stalin's purges, Nazi concentration camps, underground anarchist gatherings, and the KGB network. Alexander Motyl shows with eminent irony that twentieth-century history was funnier than Joyce imagined and much more horrible than Orwell prefigured.