The publication in Switzerland of Alexander Zinoviev s first novel The Yawning Heights cost him his membership of the Soviet Communist Party and his Soviet citizenship. His second novel, The Radiant Future, was published in exile. On the eve of its publication in English, Leonard Schapiro ,
Emeritus Professor of Political Science with special reference to
Russian Studies at the London School of Economics, considers the extent to which The Radiant Future is a further critique of Soviet society.