Soviet Literature
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The Zone by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 192Year: 1982The action takes place in a strict-regime labor camp in the Komi ASSR. The author serves as a guard. The book describes the brutal fights between prisoners with sharpened rasp files and the eating of a killed dog due to starvation. The camp administration orders the prisoners to paint a huge portrait of Lenin on […]
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Two Captains by Veniamin Kaverin
Page Count: 397Year: 1944This is the epic story of Sanya Grigoryev, a resourceful boy from a provincial town who grows up mute, but one day finds a packet of letters that become his destiny. The letters contain the last testament of the brave Arctic explorer, Captain Tatarinov, whose expedition was lost without a trace. From that moment on, […]
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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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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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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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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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The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov
Page Count: 574Year: 1928READ FREE“The Twelve Chairs” (1927) is a novel written almost a century ago, yet it feels as if it were just yesterday. Everyone quotes it, even those who haven’t read a single page or watched any of its numerous adaptations. Ostap Bender, the Great Schemer, has become a household name, with monuments erected to him across […]
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The Amphibian Man by Alexander Belyaev
Page Count: 360Year: 1927READ FREEMeet Ichthyander, an enigmatic young man who has lived underwater since childhood, thanks to a mad scientist’s incredible experiment. With shark gills replacing his lungs, he’s destined to exist between two worlds: human and aquatic. But can Ichthyander truly find his place when he faces not only marine predators but also human greed, prejudice, and, […]
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