Tale of the Troika (CDMP3)

Arkady Natanovich and Boris Natanovich Strugatsky are the classics of modern scientific and social fiction. The works of the Strugatsky were published in translations in 42 languages ​​in 33 countries of the world. In Russian, four complete collections of their works were published.

Employees of the Research Institute of Western and Magic, go to the city of Kitezhgrad to get the exhibits necessary for the local officials: a bug of a talker, an octopus of a Spiridon, a snow person Fedya, a black box ... Soon the heroes discover that the three on rationalization and disposal Unexplained phenomena (TPRUNI) have simultaneously absolute power, outrageous ignorance and caricature bureaucracy ...
“The Tale of the Three” is connected by common characters with the story “Monday begins on Saturday”. But if “Monday ...” is a cheerful humorous book, then the “Tale of the Troika” is an evil political satire, caustic exposure irony, in which the Soviet bureaucratic system and apparatus of power are ridiculed by means of grotesque and absurdity.

After the publication in 1968, the abbreviated version of the Tales of the Thirty in the Angara almanac was removed from his post, the book was recognized as “harmful to ideological relations”, and its authors were accused of “mocking” over “expensive for Soviet man ideals. Only 20 years later, the story saw the light in the magazine Change. It is this Smenovsky - the full original version we offer our listeners