Vladimir Voinovich, Russian dissident and satirist, dies at 85

In 1975, the KGB summoned Vladi­mir Voinovich to a meeting. The Russian novelist had just completed “The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin,” a World War II satire that the New York Times would later praise as “a masterpiece” and “the Soviet ‘Catch-22,’ as written by a latter-day…