The Commissariat of Enlightenment
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780061855948 (0061855944)
Publish date: February 24th 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
At times funny, at times grim, Kalfus's novel about the birth of propaganda in the Soviet state has great moments, particularly in the third section. I found the final chapters particularly well down, especially when Kalfus abandons conventional sentence structure to describe Lenin's stroke.The begi...