Oleksandr Ivanov,Alexander J. Motyl
Who Killed Andrei Warhol is an absurdist tragicomedy that imagines and explores a friendship between pop artist Andy Warhol and a straight-laced orthodox Communist, a Soviet Ukrainian journalist who arrives in New York in early 1968 to cover the impending American Revolution. As the journalist, Sasha Ivanov, unwittingly gets involved in Communist intrigues, KGB and FBI plots, student rebellions, and race riots, he comes to believe that ?Andrei? Warhol, who was in fact a working-class boy of Rusyn-Ukrainian background from Pittsburgh, is really a socialist realist painter, a proletarian genius, and a passionate Leninist. Ivanov meets Warhol?s superstars, and even has an affair with Warhol?s would-be assassin, Valerie Solanas. Written in the form of Ivanov?s diary, Who Killed Andrei Warhol begins at the height of New York?s garbage strike and ends dramatically on the day of Solanas?s attempted killing.
Fiction
Who Killed Andrei Warhol: The American Diary of a Soviet Journalist