Well, Chekhov fits well between Dostoyevsky and Saltykov-Shchedrin.
Can’t quite access the link, so here it is: the link
There are already good advices here - but I would like to suggest something that seems obvious, but might still be overlooked: consider several most likely questions your professor will ask, and prepare answers for them.
This is funny, because it is true. But also sad, for exact same reason.
Word (portmanteau) chosen to be denote “Soviets State” is also a derisive one, typically used by those hostile to it. (Perhaps not unlike CPC vs CCP nowadays)
Relevant: [https://youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro?t=17](Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun)
Comrades, please be nice to each other, and argue in good faith. Also please do not randomly downvote.
It is a shame that the author of the comic removed (most? all?) Green panels from the online version in favour of a book.
To be fair, the video was posted before 24th June.
A bit of a nitpick, but was it not in the 3rd part?
Allegedly the root of the issue is a conflict over catering for the Army, and related income.
Edit: Then there is a fairly informative 29+ min video by the man himself, giving his reasons. It is available only in Russian as far as I am aware.
Thank you for sharing this; have not actually finished reading just yet. Some “political” connecctions author makes do seem… Very particular. Search for “Marx”, “Lenin”, “Communism” in the document if you would like.
Actually after having done that myself, perhaps it does, in part, belong to TL;DR. Thankfully the author did account for that.
This really is gold, thank you for sharing. “Not only would indiscriminate attacks on civilians be arguably immoral, she points out, they’d potentially invite other countries to do the same, or worse.”