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Live and Remember by Valentin Rasputin
Page Count: 216Year: 1974The 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: 1955A 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: 1990A 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: 1932Following 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: 1989The 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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Mirgorod and Village Evenings Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 295Year: 1832Step into the vibrant, mysterious, and chaotic world of 19th-century rural Ukraine, as filtered through the eyes of the jovial, storytelling beekeeper, Rudy Panko. This collection of eight tales whisks the reader from the boisterous marketplace of Sorochyntsi Fair to the quiet, mystical nights of St. John’s Eve and the magical Christmas Eve. Here, reality […]
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Moscow and Beyond: 1986 to 1989 by Andrei Sakharov
Page Count: 320Year: 1990This 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: 1969The 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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Mother by Maxim Gorky
Page Count: 390Year: 1906The story centers on Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova, a factory worker’s widow living in a grim industrial settlement. Her life has been one of unconscious acceptance, spent in fear of her brutal, alcoholic husband. After his death, her greatest fear is that her son, Pavel, will follow the same destructive path. However, Pavel transforms, abandoning alcohol […]
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Mumu by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 60Year: 1852The story is set in Moscow, in the house of a wealthy, capricious, and domineering Mistress (barinya). Among her numerous household servants, the figure of the yard keeper, Gerasim, stands out—a man who is deaf and mute from birth, of Herculean build, yet profoundly lonely. Gerasim initially develops an attachment to the laundress Tatyana, but […]
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My Country and the World by Andrei Sakharov
Page Count: 112Year: 1975In 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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My Past and Thoughts by Alexander Herzen
Page Count: 750Year: 1868This monumental work is far more than an autobiography; it is a panoramic political and personal testament that spans the heart of the 19th century. Alexander Herzen begins in the shadow of Tsarist autocracy, recalling his privileged yet solitary childhood and his fervent youthful vow with Nikolai Ogarev to fight for freedom. His defiance leads […]
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