About the book: 2008 / New times and new people driving Mercedes - all this is faced by the inhabitants of the city of Dolgov, well known to the reader from the novel "Life" and the extraordinary adventures of the soldier Ivan Chonkin.” Anecdotes about new and old Russians are incredibly funny. But even they pale in comparison to Voinovich’s lively imagination and wit in “Monumental Propaganda.” Yesterday’s realities seem like fantastic fiction to today’s reader, the more ridiculous the more incredible. But it was, it was... In 2001, the novel was awarded the Russian State Prize for Literature.