Stalinland, as the title suggests, is a fictional representation of an especially oppressive period of history during which any pretext suffices to destroy the lives of untold millions. It is the story of Mikhail Pavlovich Nekrasov, a writer who is condemned to die in a Russian labor camp for the offense of publishing a book of blank pages. His nemesis, Stepan Ilyich, a member of Stalin's infamous secret police, plagiarizes the forgotten corpus of Mikhail's literary works, and for a time, his villainy is amply rewarded. But if worldly justice fails insofar as Stepan's crimes are concerned, unworldly justice finally closes in to correct the miscarriage.
Stalinland, as the title suggests, is a fictional representation of an especially oppressive period of history during which any pretext suffices to destroy the lives of untold millions. It is the story of Mikhail Pavlovich Nekrasov, a writer who is condemned to die in a Russian labor camp for the offense of publishing a book of blank pages. His nemesis, Stepan Ilyich, a member of Stalin's infamous secret police, plagiarizes the forgotten corpus of Mikhail's literary works, and for a time, his villainy is amply rewarded. But if worldly justice fails insofar as Stepan's crimes are concerned, unworldly justice finally closes in to correct the miscarriage.
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