The Gollovlev Family

Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov

Classic Fiction

The Golovlyov Family is regarded as a classic of Russian literature. According to D. S. Mirsky, it is “the gloo

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Eichmann in Jerusalem

A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

Philosophy

Hannah Arendt’s stunning and unnerving report on the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of

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The Precipice

Ivan Gonchorov

Classic Fiction

According to Goncharov, the idea of the third novel came to him in 1849 when he returned to his native Simbirsk

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Stalin and the shaping of the Soviet Union

Alex De Jong

Biography

With tenacity, cunning and the ruthless use of terror as a political weapon, Joseph Stalin carved his way to su

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Despair

Vladimir Nabokov

Contemporary Fiction

Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965–thirty years after its original publication– Despair is the wickedly i

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