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Michael Scott Moore

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Day of the Oprichnik, 16 Years Later

Day of the Oprichnik, 16 Years Later

Sorokin deserves credit for bothering to skewer such a marginal figure

This rhythm in Russia, of repression and violent revolution, is well known to Sorokin, who first emerged as a writer under Soviet rule in the 1980s, when he was no less irritating to the Kremlin. He’s not just a satirist but also a speculative fantasist, and he became angrily political after Putin came to power.