Dr Chizhevsky's Chandelier: The Decline of the USSR and other Heresies of the Twentieth Century

A work of experimental nonfiction that spotlights the so-called Undesirables of recent history, forced into martyrdom and infamy.

Daniel Elkind’s hybrid-genre debut, Chizhevsky’s Chandelier is a nonfiction experiment that tells the story of A.L. Chizhevsky, the inventor and father of the field of heliobiology, who — like his hero Galileo — was punished for daring to suggest that human history revolved around the sun.

This expansive narrative of historical reckoning stages a confrontation betw...