Old Bolshevik Aleksandr Voronsky's autobiographical novel, Waters of Life and Death.The charm of his work lies in how it observes nature and people with a delicate and affectionate gaze, only to nonchalantly spout crazy commie talk.I read this along with Yuri Slezkine's The House of Government (which frequently quotes Voronsky), Varlam Shalamov's essays (who was a friend of Voronsky's daughter), and the autobiography of Kanatchikov (an Old Bolshevik of worker origin and a friend of Voronsky).
