![]() ![]() Satirising Russia’s new order and classes ![]() He ironically observed that in his time it was hard to be a writer: "These days a writer must have an ideology." Unfortunately, the lack of ideological content in his works was to play a cruel joke on him. However, he openly declared he was not a Marxist and would never become one. And so I'm willing to bolshevik around with them." Like the Bolsheviks, Zoshchenko didn't believe in God and even regarded Orthodox Christian rites as ridiculous he loved the Russia of the "muzhiks'". ![]() "In their general thrust the Bolsheviks are closer to me than anybody else. Nonetheless, during the Civil War Zoshchenko fought on the side of the Reds and was sympathetic towards the Bolsheviks. Mikhail Zoshchenko Vladimir Presnyakov/Anna Akhmatova state literary memorial museum ![]()
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