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Published 12 Dec 2025While The Doomed City isn’t the last book Boris and Arkady Strugatsky wrote, it is arguably the end of their journey from idealism to cynicism with regards to the whole Soviet project and serves as an almost spiritual history of the period. Let’s meander through it to look at some things not covered in a literary review.
00:00 Intro
03:12 New Jobs
04:45 Aside – Facts and Theory
05:42 Laws and Mentors
09:36 The Experiment
10:50 Regime Change
13:25 Aside – Maps
15:45 Status and Power
18:22 The Ground Beneath Our Feet
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The b-roll clips are from the 1998 film Dark City, which shares some common elements, and the 2024 Russian production of The Master and Margarita, a scathing take on the Soviet system written well before the decline set in. Both are deserving of videos on their own, which I’ll get to eventually.That bird really wanted me to leave.
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May 8, 2026
The Strugatskys’ The Doomed City and the Soviet Experiment
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