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Stalin and the shaping of the Soviet Union
Alex De Jong
With tenacity, cunning and the ruthless use of terror as a political weapon, Joseph Stalin carved his way to su
Notes for a Journal
Maxim Litvinov
Maxim Maximovich; born Meir Henoch Wallach-Finkelstein; 17 July 1876 – 31 December 1951) was a Russian revolu
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the st
Conversations with Stalin
Milovan Djilas
Milovan Djilas was one of four senior members of Titos government until his expulsion from the Yugoslav Communi
Mother
Maxim Gorky
907. Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a
Selected Stories
Konstantin Paustovsky
This selection was specially compiled by the author shortly before his death for publication in English. The re
Children of the Arbat
Anatoli Rybakov
On a street called the Arbat in Moscows intellectual and artistic center in the 1930s, Sasha, one of a group of
Heavy Sand
Anatoli Rybakov
Two main parts of Anatoly Rybakov are titled after the writers major novels, Children of the Arbat and Heavy Sa
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Vladimir Voinovich
Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak
Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler
Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur K
Safe Conduct
An Early Autobiography and Other Works
Boris Pasternak
The awarding of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature to Boris Pasternak and the subsequent calumny of his fellow
The Oak and The Calf
A Memoir
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In this autobiographical work, Solzhenitsyn tells of his ten-year war to outwit Russias rulers and get his work
Three Who Made a Revolution
A Biograpical History
Bertram D Wolfe
The lives of three men who made the Russian Revolution possible–Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin–are the focus of t
August 1914
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into Eas
The First Circle
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, The First Circle is the story of the prisoner Gleb Ne
For the Good of the Cause
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Like Solzhenitsyns world famous novels One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The First Circle and Cancer Ward
And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokhov
And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don lit. The Quiet Don) is 4-volume epic novel by Russian writer M
Lenin: A Biography
Robert Service
Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on 20th-century history cannot be underestimated. This biography mak
The Penguin History of Modern Russia
From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century
Robert Service
Russias recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is s
The Black Arab and Other Stories
Mikhail Prishvin
Mikhail Prishvin was born in the family mansion of Krutschevo in Oryol Governorate (now in Stanovlyansky Distri
The Life of a Useless Man
Maxim Gorky
This book was begun by Maxim Gorky in 1907, less than two years after the unsuccessful armed rebellion on Blood
The Burn
Vassily Aksyonov
Aksyonovs magnum opus – and quite something: shaggy, surrealist, knowingly comic, painful, and always utterly c
Young Stalin
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Based on ten years astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy be
The White Guard
Mikhail Bulgakov
Although less famous than Mikhail Bulgakovs comic hit, The Master and Margarita, The White Guard is still an en
Mikhail Bulgakov
Critical Lives
J A Curtis
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) was one of the most popular Russian writers of the twentieth century, but m
The Fatal Eggs
Mikhail Bulgakov
As the turbulent years following the Russian revolution of 1917 settle down into a new Soviet reality, the bril
Cancer Ward
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study
One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a clas
Peter The First
Alexey Tolstoy
Here, for the first time, in its final form and in a new translation, is the epic Russian novel which has sold