This is an article of «Winter in Moscow» (1934), a novel by a British writer Malcolm Muggeridge in which he portrayed the tragedy of the Russian peasantry in the 1930s, a «black comedy» of life and work of foreign journalists in Moscow, as well as the drama of Western «left», who believed in the «Soviet myth». Muggeridge exposed the myth of a «great Soviet experiment» as an embodiment of utopia, while the whole world was fascinated by this myth.
Keywords
English literature; Soviet civilization; tragedy; grotesque.
