Soviet Literature

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Between Dog and Wolf by Sasha Sokolov
Page Count: 296Year: 1980
The action is a verbal labyrinth where the old miller Ilya Petrovich and his pupil, the poet Yakov, live out their days in a remote village with no clear location. The ailing Yakov wages a constant battle with language itself, attempting to fix life in words while his body and the world around him dissolve […]
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Danilov, The Violist by Vladimir Orlov
Page Count: 450Year: 1980
The hero of the novel, the modest Moscow violist Vladimir Danilov, is secretly a half-demon, the son of an earthly woman and a being from an otherworldly, violet civilization. He lives a double life, trying to reconcile his devilish destiny with his passion for music and his love for the mortal woman Klavdia. He is […]
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Days and Nights by Konstantin Simonov
Page Count: 421Year: 1944
The main character of the novel is the battalion commander Captain Saburov. His nearly full division is transferred to Stalingrad in early September 1942 and sent into street fighting. The entire novel spans two and a half months during which Saburov fights for three Stalingrad houses. In the basement of one of the held buildings, […]
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Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
Page Count: 240Year: 1996
Viktor Zolotaryov is a lonely, aspiring writer in Kyiv whose only companion is Misha, a melancholic King Penguin adopted from the city’s impoverished zoo. Desperate for money, Viktor accepts a job writing “obelisks”—obituaries for a local newspaper’s archive, reserved for influential people who are still very much alive. The work pays unexpectedly well and provides […]
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Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Page Count: 512Year: 1957
Zhivago marries the gentle Tonya, but his destiny is tragically entwined with the passionate, elusive Larisa (“Lara”) Antipova, a woman whose life is scarred by an older predator and whose husband transforms into the fearsome Red commander, Strelnikov. As the world fragments into chaos, the doctor struggles to practice his art and preserve his poetic […]
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Duck Hunting by Aleksandr Vampilov
Page Count: 162Year: 1970
The engineer Viktor Zilov receives a funeral wreath bearing his own name. He takes it as a cruel joke and organizes a grand farewell banquet where he pushes himself to the limit. Through a series of flashbacks, his cynical life is revealed: he betrayed his wife Galya, cheated on her with Irina, toyed with the […]
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Forever Flowing (Everything Flows) by Vasily Grossman
Page Count: 272Year: 1972
This is the story of Ivan Grigorovich, who returns to a world he no longer recognizes after spending thirty years in the camps of the Gulag. He is legally free, but his mind and soul are captives of the past, struggling to reconcile the official Soviet reality with the human tragedy he witnessed. Wandering across […]
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Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
Page Count: 123Year: 1925
One cold Moscow winter in 1924, the stray dog Sharik, who philosophically reflects on the cruelty of the proletariat and the saving grace of the intelligentsia, is picked up by the famous surgeon Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazhensky. The Professor, a world-renowned scientist, conducts an ambitious and secret experiment: he transplants the pituitary gland and testicles […]
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Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War? by Viktor Suvorov
Page Count: 374Year: 1990
Are you ready to re-examine the entire history of World War II? In this explosive work, Viktor Suvorov challenges conventional wisdom, arguing that Stalin was not an innocent victim of Hitler’s aggression, but instead actively planned a massive invasion of Europe. The book analyzes the colossal movements in the Red Army, the echeloning of troops, […]
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Inside the Soviet Army by Viktor Suvorov
Page Count: 305Year: 1982
Do you want to know how the military machine that kept the entire West on edge during the Cold War actually functioned? This book is a detailed, structured guide to the organization, armament, and doctrine of the Soviet Army. Suvorov, using his knowledge and experience, explains everything: from the system of ranks and recruit training […]
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Kangaroo by Yuz Aleshkovsky
Page Count: 278Year: 1981
The protagonist, an old man named Skobelev, suddenly finds himself on trial for the most absurd crime in history: allegedly stealing and eating a sacred kangaroo belonging to Tsar Nicholas II himself. A surreal and grotesque investigation begins, led by a prosecutor’s investigator for special cases, turning the whole affair into a farce that reflects […]
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Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Page Count: 896Year: 1960
The immense, multi-layered story centers on the Shaposhnikov family, scattered across the Soviet Union during the most terrifying period of the Great Patriotic War. While the tank corps of one sister’s husband prepares for the counter-offensive at Stalingrad, her former husband, a commissar, faces KGB arrest in Moscow, and her Jewish mother, Sofya Levinton, walks […]
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