The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Ken Kalfus (.ePUB)(.AZW3)
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The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Ken Kalfus
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Overview: Russia, 1910.
Leo Tolstoy lies dying in Astapovo, a remote railway station.
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 have been joined by a film company whose cinematographer, Nikolai Gribshin, is capturing the extraordinary scene and learning how to wield his camera as a political tool. At this historic moment he comes across two men — the scientist, Professor Vorobev, and the revolutionist, Joseph Stalin — who have radical, mysterious plans for the future. Soon they will accompany him on a long, cold march through an era of brutality and absurdity.
The Commissariat of Enlightenment is a mesmerizing novel of ideas that brilliantly links the tragedy and comedy of the Russian Revolution with the global empire of images that occupies our imaginations today.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Historical > Cultural > Russia
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