In a literary parody of this person, the painter Artis draws a perfect likeness of this man's penis being ridden by a few world statesmen on a urinal erected in his honor - that novel is The Yawning Heights.
In a literary parody of this person, the painter Artis draws a perfect likeness of this man's penis being ridden by a few world statesmen on a urinal erected in his honor - that novel is The Yawning Heights. A letter to this person prefaces the fifteen stories in the story collection The Dragon, which begins with "A Provincial Tale." The short story "The Circle of Friends" depicts this figure taking off a bushy mustache as if it were a prop, and then shooting at his reflection. His thick fingers are described as bulky and fat like live-baits in a poem titled after this man's epigram, which was written by a poet who attempted to make amends for that work by writing an ode to this figure - that poet was the author of Voronezh Notebooks, Osip Mandelstam. This man's time in power is treated in the novel Children of the Arbat. FTP, name this author of the pamphlet "Dialectical and Historical Materialism" who purged folks like Nikolai Bukharin. 
In a literary parody of this person, the painter Artis draws a perfect likeness of this man's penis being ridden by a few world statesmen on a urinal erected in his honor - that novel is The Yawning Heights.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Iosif Dzhugashvili)