Soviet Literature

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Live and Remember by Valentin Rasputin
Page Count: 216Year: 1974
The story takes place during the final year of the Great Patriotic War. The plot centers on the secret drama of Andrei Guskov, who deserted the front and lives secretly as an outcast. His wife, Nastena, is the only person who holds his secret. She is forced to lead an unbearable double life: by day, […]
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Page Count: 317Year: 1955
A European professor develops a criminal obsession with his landlady’s 12-year-old daughter. To gain access to the girl, he marries her mother. When the mother dies unexpectedly, Humbert legally takes custody, launching a prolonged, twisted journey of psychological manipulation and abuse across the American highways. Their forced companionship, masked as a road trip, isolates Lolita […]
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Memoirs by Andrei Sakharov
Page Count: 210Year: 1990
A towering figure of the 20th century chronicles his impossible transformation from the secretive “Father of the Soviet Hydrogen Bomb” to the nation’s most fearless and consequential human rights dissident. The narrative is a harrowing personal and historical account detailing his work on world-destroying weapons, his gradual, agonizing realization of the regime’s moral bankruptcy, and […]
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Memories From Moscow To The Black Sea by Teffi
Page Count: 352Year: 1932
Following the October Revolution, the famous humorist Teffi leaves starving Moscow and sets out for Odessa, attempting to make her way to the Black Sea. The journey turns into a tragicomic adventure through territories torn apart by the Civil War, where power changes hands daily and passengers constantly balance between life and death. Her sharp […]
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Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Page Count: 256Year: 1989
The hero discovers he is not suffering from forgetfulness, but from a temporal paradox: he cannot forget events that… have not yet happened. He experiences the future as if it were an accomplished past. This temporal disorder renders him incapable of living in the present or changing the pre-written future he already “remembers,” condemning him […]
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Moscow and Beyond: 1986 to 1989 by Andrei Sakharov
Page Count: 320Year: 1990
This is a chronicle of conscience, struggle, and great historical drama. The book recounts Sakharov’s return from his Gorky exile, his direct moral confrontation with Mikhail Gorbachev, and his uncompromising fight in the new Soviet Parliament for democratic reforms and human rights. Every page is a testament from a great scientist and dissident whose moral […]
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Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev
Page Count: 164Year: 1969
The story follows Venichka Erofeev, a highly educated but completely demoralized alcoholic, who has just been fired from his job for drawing consumption charts instead of laying cable. Starting from a Moscow train station, Venichka embarks on a commuter rail journey to Petushki, a provincial town where his beloved “trollop” and child await. The entire […]
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My Country and the World by Andrei Sakharov
Page Count: 112Year: 1975
In this later, wider-ranging collection of essays, the Nobel Peace Prize winner broadens his moral critique from internal Soviet injustices to the global stage, dissecting the geopolitical failings of both the USSR and the USA. He bravely champions the universal rights of the individual against the demands of the state, advocating for radical disarmament and […]
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Novel with Cocaine by M. Agueev
Page Count: 224Year: 1934
The student Vadim Maslennikov begins his confession by describing first love and his acquaintance with women. However, the central event is his discovery of cocaine. Vadim quickly becomes addicted, which completely changes his character, making him cynical and obsessed. He loses the capacity for genuine feeling, replacing it with the painful euphoria of the drug. […]
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Ours by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 135Year: 1983
The book contains stories about ten of the author’s relatives. The great-grandfather, a tailor, made a failed attempt to serve Lenin. The maternal grandfather worked as a teacher in the USA and had an affair with a Black woman before returning to the USSR. The book details the father’s theatrical work and his problems with […]
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Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Page Count: 224Year: 1962
This is a literary detective story told in the form of a poem and a commentary. The poem is “Pale Fire,” written by the recently murdered poet John Shade. The commentary is written by his delusional neighbor, Charles Kinbote, who claims to be the exiled King Charles II of Zembla, hiding from an assassin. Kinbote […]
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Peter the First by Aleksey Tolstoy
Page Count: 776Year: 1934
The story begins in the archaic, stifling world of 17th-century Muscovy, ruled by Tsarevna Sophia, where young Peter is little more than a boisterous boy more interested in soldiers and ships than statecraft. The narrative follows his fiery ascent to power, portraying not just the Tsar’s ruthless reforms—the Great Embassy, the Streltsy Uprisings, the foundations […]
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