Vasily Aksyonov,Vasily Aksyonov
Written in 1979, Vassily Aksyonovâ€™s ,The Island of Crimea, imagines an alternative history (abetted by alternative geographyâ€”Crimea is a peninsula) wherein the Russian civil war ends with the tsarist forces able to hold onto this southern scrap of the old empire. Skip forward sixty years, and Crimea is a booming Hong Kong to the U.S.S.R.â€™s China. To the contemporary Soviet reader, almost every word in that opening sentence invited giggles of dizzy disorientation.
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The Island of Crimea