Ludmila Ulitskaya wrote a great novel a few years back about what it was like being in the Soviet Union and living under the various cultural restrictions, and then how literary heroes like Nabokov, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Boris Pasternak wrote about and contributed to the resistance through cultural output. Even in the cases where their work was kind of co-opted as resistance even if they themselves were not exactly radicals there’s still something affirming about it. Vladimir Voinovich has a different story to tell. What […]