Vladimir Putin is reputed to like Russian literature. So did Joseph Stalin, who learn voraciously and even gave “recommendation” to authors after studying their manuscripts fastidiously. For that matter, Czar Nicholas I made himself Alexander Pushkin’s private censor, a doubtful honor the poet would reasonably have forgone. Even Lenin was influenced as a lot by Nicholas Chernyshevsky’s utopian novel “What Is to Be Performed?” as by Karl Marx.
Why would Russian leaders take such an curiosity in literature? Even when Mr. Putin solely pretends to be guided by nice writers, why ought to he really feel the necessity for such pretense? American presidents don’t declare to get their concepts from “Moby-Dick” or “The Scarlet Letter.”
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