Soviet Literature
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The Exchange by Yury Trifonov
Page Count: 192Year: 1969The young Moscow intellectual Viktor Dmitriev and his wife Lena initiate a housing exchange operation with the goal of moving Viktor’s terminally ill mother into their own, larger apartment so she can “see out her days” there. This seemingly mundane step instantly turns the entire family into predators willing to commit any moral degradation for […]
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The Faculty of Useless Knowledge by Yury Dombrovsky
Page Count: 512Year: 1978The arrested art historian Georgy Zybin immediately finds himself at the center of a cruel psychological duel with NKVD investigators in Alma-Ata during the Stalinist purges. He refuses to sign false confessions, using his knowledge of history and art as an unexpected weapon against torture and ideological pressure. The book details this moral and intellectual […]
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The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov
Page Count: 160Year: 1923It is Moscow in the near-future year of 1928. Professor Vladimir Persikov, a brilliant and misanthropic zoologist, accidentally discovers a “Red Ray” that dramatically accelerates the growth and reproductive rate of living organisms. At the same time, a mysterious chicken plague (the “rooster disease”) wipes out virtually all poultry in the Soviet republics. Driven by […]
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The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (3 Volumes Collection)
Page Count: 2505Year: 1973The Gulag Archipelago is not a book in the traditional sense, but an “Experiment in Literary Investigation”—a monumental work based on Solzhenitsyn’s personal memories and the testimonies of 227 former prisoners. It recounts how a “second country”—a vast, hidden chain of concentration camps and prisons—secretly flourished across the USSR, where millions of Soviet citizens were […]
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The House on the Embankment by Yury Trifonov
Page Count: 157Year: 1976The action unfolds in the famous “House of Government,” where members of the Soviet nomenklatura lived, tracing the destiny of Glebov. As a talented and promising young man, he is confronted with the necessity of making a moral choice during the years of Stalin’s purges. Glebov gradually betrays his ideals and his friends for the […]
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The Letter Killers Club by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Page Count: 176Year: 1990A writer becomes obsessed with the “contamination” of language by useless letters and meanings, leading him to found a secret society of linguistic purifiers. The club’s goal is the radical “murder” of superfluous characters and ideas for the sake of purifying thought. However, this obsession leads to madness and a dangerous simplification of thought itself. […]
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The Liberators: My Life in the Soviet Army by Viktor Suvorov
Page Count: 288Year: 1981This is a straightforward, ruthless look at the Soviet Army from the inside, told by an eyewitness. The book describes the path of a young officer who went through strict discipline, senseless bureaucracy, and, most significantly, participation in the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. Suvorov neither embellishes nor conceals: you will see the army as it […]
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The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov
Page Count: 836Year: 1959The news of the war’s outbreak caught “the Sintsov family by surprise, just like many other families.” Ivan and his wife Masha had just arrived in Crimea for a vacation when the fascist invaders’ attack became known. The situation was extremely serious—”their one-year-old daughter was left there, in Grodno, near the war.” Masha could not […]
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Page Count: 448Year: 1967Imagine 1930s Moscow — a city constrained by bureaucracy, shortages, and state-enforced atheism — is suddenly visited by Satan himself, in the guise of Professor Woland, accompanied by his infernal retinue, including the absurdly dressed Koroviev and the massive, talking cat Behemoth. Woland’s visit is a devilish inspection and a session of black magic that […]
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The Return of Munchausen by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Page Count: 168Year: 1990The aging and immortal Baron Munchausen returns to a world that has mechanized imagination and rationalized fantasy. He struggles to prove to the new society that his incredible, impossible memories are real. The Baron’s eternal life turns into a tragic quest for meaning and belief in the miraculous, because in a world with no room […]
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The Suitcase by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 144Year: 1986Upon emigrating, the journalist managed to take with him only one blue Finnish suitcase. Inside were eight completely random objects, each of which serves as the key to a separate, often absurd and tragicomic story from his past life. Among these relics are a decent but worn suit of a deceased bandit; crepe women’s stockings, […]
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The Symmetry Teacher by Andrei Bitov
Page Count: 288Year: 1987The plot revolves around the search for and analysis of a manuscript about a certain Symmetry Teacher, who may be the protagonist, the author, or even the reader themselves. The essence of the story is a multilayered game with reality and literature: the main character, a philologist, fruitlessly searches for ideal symmetry in the world […]
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