Soviet Literature
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Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Page Count: 208Year: 1957Meet Timofey Pavlovich Pnin, a Russian émigré, professor of Russian literature at the quaint American Waindell College, and one of the most endearing and hapless figures in 20th-century fiction. Pnin is a true intellectual of the old school—erudite, meticulous, and agonizingly vulnerable—but hopelessly clumsy when navigating the chaos of American life, from mastering the English […]
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Progress, Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom by Andrei Sakharov
Page Count: 160Year: 1968This foundational 1968 manifesto launches a fierce moral and intellectual attack on both Soviet totalitarianism and the Western nuclear threat, arguing that human survival demands the radical convergence of the two global systems. The author, a secret-weapons physicist, risks his entire privileged life to declare that the survival of humanity hinges on universal intellectual freedom […]
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Pushkin Hills by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 128Year: 1985The main character, the writer Boris Alikhanov, takes a job as a guide at the Pushkin Reserve. He leaves Leningrad, fleeing his divorce and the emigration of his wife and daughter. The book describes his service as a guide, his drinking, and conflicts with colleagues. He awaits the final arrival of his wife to finalize […]
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Pushkin House by Andrei Bitov
Page Count: 414Year: 1987The philologist Lyova Odoevtsev lives in Leningrad, attempting to find his identity in the shadow of his famous academic grandfather and scientist father. The main conflict is his strained relationship with Mitishatyev, a cynical and talented foil. Mitishatyev steals Lyova’s scholarly work, provokes him, and drags him into personal disputes. The plot culminates in a […]
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Requiem by Anna Akhmatova
Page Count: 78Year: 1963The poem cycle begins with the arrest of her son and the start of the mother’s seven years of waiting outside the Leningrad prisons. Akhmatova records the conversations and suffering of other women in the lines. The poem references the execution of the poet’s husband in 1921. The climax of the cycle is the poet’s […]
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Resistance by Victor Serge
Page Count: 112Year: 1923A collection of Poetry written by Serge in exile during the 1930s. The poems capture his loneliness, struggle, and unyielding spirit against the Stalinist regime. Every text is a direct statement: external dictatorship cannot destroy the internal freedom of thought and belief in the ideals of the revolution. This is an act of resistance, preserving […]
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Russia Twenty Years After by Victor Serge
Page Count: 314Year: 1937This Nonfiction work is a direct analysis of how Stalin and his bureaucratic apparatus systematically dismantled the ideals of the Russian Revolution over twenty years. Serge details the mechanism of terror: the liquidation of the old revolutionaries and the complete replacement of a free society with a system of total control and fear. The author […]
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Siberia, Siberia by Valentin Rasputin
Page Count: 428Year: 1991The book is a deep, almost mystical immersion into the history, culture, and soul of the Siberian land. Rasputin guides the reader along the banks of great rivers, past ancient settlements, exploring how the fates of convicts, Old Believers, merchants, and pioneers blended to form the unique Siberian character. The most poignant parts are the […]
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Spetsnaz: The Inside Story Of The Special Soviet Special Forces by Viktor Suvorov
Page Count: 232Year: 1988Dive into the secrets of one of the most closed and terrifying military units in the world—the Soviet GRU Spetsnaz. Suvorov, with his background in the GRU, reveals the frightening truth about the training, missions, and doctrine of these “invisible soldiers.” You will learn how the fighters were selected, the sophisticated sabotage methods they were […]
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Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
Page Count: 240Year: 1982The novel is a unique fusion: a contemporary narrator rides a train to Leningrad, and his thoughts merge with a reconstruction of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s journey with his young wife, Anna Grigoryevna, to Baden-Baden in 1867. Dostoevsky suffers from epileptic seizures and gambles away his last money at the roulette table, humiliating himself. Anna Grigoryevna, his […]
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The Bridge Over the Neroch by Leonid Tsypkin
Page Count: 320Year: 1973The novella details the author’s childhood in Minsk before the start of the Great Patriotic War. The main events are the boy’s internal experiences and games: he explores the outskirts, fears “scary” places, and searches for adventures. The plot centers on the child’s attempts to understand the adults—intellectual parents living with the premonition of catastrophe—and […]
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The Compromise by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 224Year: 1981The book is structured as 11 compromise stories, each featuring an official newspaper article from Soviet Estonia followed by the true account of the absurd events that led to its writing. The author, a journalist, describes falsifications and absurdities in the newspaper office. One story details a frantic hunt for a suitable infant for an […]
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