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Day of the Oprichnik

Vladimir Sorokin (2011)

SubgenreHigh Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingHard R
Pages (Quick Read (<250))
Setting
CSM age18+
Goodreads3.74
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Content levels

ViolenceStrong
Sexual contentExplicit
LanguageStrong

Trigger warnings

Political ViolenceTotalitarianismState OppressionSexual ViolenceTortureMurderGraphic Violence

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Protagonist archetypes

Morally Gray Protagonist

Tropes

Dystopian FutureAlternate HistoryDark LordPolitical IntrigueTotalitarian StateSecret Police

Themes

Power and CorruptionAuthoritarianismState ViolenceHistorical RecurrenceNationalismTechnology and ControlMoral Decay

Synopsis

Imagines a New Russia of the near future that is ruled by a reconstituted nobility and which blends draconian codes with modern technology while locking down Western borders, a region in which a twenty-years-older Vladimir Putin has appropriated all freeenterprise.

Tags

Dystopian FictionPolitical SatireSpeculative FictionAlternate History