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Unwitting Street by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Page Count: 184Year: 1989A Moscow musician suddenly realizes that his art, his scores, and notes, are literally written into the fabric of the city. Streets, houses, and passersby begin to sound, obeying a hidden but real musical code. He tries to escape this hyper-reality but finds himself trapped within his own melody, trying to decipher the enigma of […]
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Viy by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 41Year: 1835Three Kyiv seminarians, heading home for the holidays, lose their way and stumble upon a lost farmstead where the old mistress turns out to be a witch. The philosopher Khoma Brut, the most carefree and light-hearted of the three, falls victim to her sorcery: she saddles him and rides him through the night sky. Khoma, […]
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 1024Year: 1869At the heart of the story is Natasha Rostova, young, full of life, and utterly captivating. Her heart becomes the nucleus of a dramatic triangle, connecting two contrasting personalities: the idealist Pierre Bezukhov and the proud, ambitious Prince Andrei Bolkonsky. From their very first meeting, Pierre is secretly and devotedly in love with Natasha, but […]
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War’s Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich
Page Count: 384Year: 1985The book opens with the shocking, intimate revelations of hundreds of women who participated in the Great Patriotic War. From a sniper who recounts the difficulty of taking the first shot to a nurse who shares the details of fear, hunger, and filth on the front lines. Alexievich records these monologues to restore the authentic, […]
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Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov
Page Count: 120Year: 1892The story is set in a dilapidated mental asylum—Ward No. 6—of a provincial Russian hospital, managed by Dr. Andrey Yefimych Ragin. The doctor is an initially well-intentioned, but ultimately apathetic, intellectual who rationalizes his negligence of the hospital’s horrific conditions with philosophical fatalism. Ragin’s quiet indifference is shattered when he begins to converse with one […]
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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Page Count: 238Year: 1924In the glass city of the One State, where the life of every “number” is dictated by the Table of Hours, the engineer D-503 is happy. He is the builder of the spaceship “Integral,” intended to carry “mathematically infallible happiness” to the savage inhabitants of other planets. His world is perfect: there is no worry, […]
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What Is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 240Year: 1898This famous treatise is the result of fifteen years of Tolstoy’s reflections, in which he completely revised the criteria for evaluating art, rejecting the concepts of Beauty and Pleasure as false and elitist. Tolstoy asserts: true art is not pleasure, but a means of communication and union among men. Its main sign is infection: if […]
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What Is to Be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Page Count: 449Year: 1863This novel is not merely a love story; it is a radical blueprint for a new society, written from a prison cell. It follows the life of the intelligent and determined Vera Pavlovna, who escapes the tyranny of her oppressive family through a fictional marriage to the medical student Dmitry Lopukhov. Vera goes on to […]
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White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 134Year: 1848A solitary, nameless young man—a Dreamer—wanders the luminous, sleepless streets of St. Petersburg during the magical summer phenomenon of the White Nights, his existence confined entirely to his own elaborate fantasies. His lonely routine is shattered when he meets Nastenka, a young woman crying by the canal, recently saved from harassment, who is waiting desperately […]
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Who Is to Blame? by Alexander Herzen
Page Count: 290Year: 1846The novel opens with a scathing satire of the Russian provincial gentry, focusing on the household of the coarse and petty landowner Negrov. Into this environment comes Dmitry Krutsifersky, a poor but idealistic son of a doctor hired as a tutor. Dmitry’s initial happiness arrives when he marries Lyubov, Negrov’s educated and passionate illegitimate daughter. […]
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Witness to the German Revolution by Victor Serge
Page Count: 240Year: 1923Serge documents and analyzes the failure of the communist uprising in Germany in 1923. He highlights the enormous revolutionary potential of the workers and the indecision of the leaders, which led to the defeat of the movement. This Nonfiction work chronicles a bitter historical lesson: how the missed chance for revolution in Germany ensured the […]
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Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievich
Page Count: 304Year: 1989From the first pages, the book unleashes the grief of mothers whose sons returned from the Afghanistan War in “zinc coffins.” This documentary chronicle is built on the testimonies of veterans, nurses, and families who survived the horror of the “undeclared war” and, worse, the betrayal and lies they faced upon returning home. It is […]
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