Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution
10 best books like Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution (Ivan Bunin): Peter the First, My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, Grey is the Color of Hope, The Golovlyov Family, The Duel, Farewell to Matyora, The Road: Stories, Journalism, and Essays, The Petty Demon, The Galosh: And Other Stories, Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia
| Author | Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 1410225097 |
Here, for the first time, in its final form and in a new translation, is the epic Russian novel which has sold in its native country over two million copies. Alexey Tolstoy (who was not related to the author of War and Peace) began to study the character of his hero, Peter the First, in 1917. When he died almost...
| Author | Alexander Herzen |
| ISBN | 0520042107 |
Alexander Herzen's own brilliance and the extraordinary circumstances of his life combine to place his memoirs among the greatest works of the modern era. Born in 1812, the illegitimate son of a wealthy Russian landowner, he became one of the most important revolutionary and intellectual figures...
Grey is the Color of Hope
| Author | Irina Ratushinskaya |
| ISBN | 0679724478 |
The relationship between the Russian language and the English language is one of the most compelling proofs that the universe has a sense of humor (and horror). That, democracy, and snuggies. Grey is the Color of Hope is tragic and compelling enough as a story that saying I didn't like it would be like...
| Author | M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin |
| ISBN | 0940322579 |
Searingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-until she loses power to the relentless scheming of her hypocritical son Porphyry.
One of the...
| Author | Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin |
| ISBN | 0451500458 |
Her mourth was almost pressed against his, and her words were like quick, hurried kisses: "You must absolutely go through with the duel tomorrow."
This is an account of the final days of Czarist Russia. An absorbing saga about the brutalities of military life upon its own soldiers. Stranded...
| Author | Valentin Rasputin |
| ISBN | 0810113295 |
A fine example of Village Prose from the post-Stalin era, Farewell to Matyora decries the loss of the Russian peasant culture to the impersonal, soulless march of progress.
It is the final summer of the peasant village of Matyora. A dam will be completed in the fall, destroying the village....
| Author | Vasily Grossman |
| ISBN | 1590173619 |
The Road brings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of Life and Fate, providing new insight into the life and work of this extraordinary writer. The stories range from Grossman’s first success, “In the Town of Berdichev,” a piercing reckoning...
| Author | Fyodor Sologub |
| ISBN | 0882338080 |
The Petty Demon is one of the funniest Russian novels. It is also the most decadent of the great Russian classics, replete with naked boys, sinuous girls, and a strange mixture of beauty and perversity. The main hero, Peredonov, is as comical as he is disgusting, he is at once a victim, a monster, a silly...
| Author | Mikhail Zoshchenko |
| ISBN | 1585676314 |
In his prime, satirist Mikhail Zoschenko was more widely read in the Soviet Union than either Pasternak or Solzhenitsyn. His stories give expression to the bewildered experience of the ordinary Soviet citizen struggling to survive in the 1920's and `30s, beset by an acute housing shortage, ubiquitous...
| Author | Catherine Merridale |
| ISBN | 0142000639 |
During the twentieth century, Russia, Ukraine, and the other territories of the former Soviet Union experienced more bloodshed and violent death than anywhere else on earth: fifty million dead in an epic of destruction that encompassed war, revolution, famine, epidemic, and political purges....
| Author | Vasily Shukshin |
| ISBN | 0875805728 |
A cultural phenomenon in his day—an award-winning film director and actor who also wrote novels, plays, and movie scripts—Vasily Shukshin (1929–1974) is renowned for his mastery of the short story. Credited with revitalizing the short story as a genre in Russian literature, he was posthumously...
| Author | Antony Pogorelsky |
| ISBN | 1894965035 |
"Black Chicken or Underground Inhabitants" is a book by Anatolii Pogorelskii. This book is probably one of the most sad and touching tales for children in Russian literature, and even though it was written a long time ago in 1829, magical and mysterious plot about a little boy Alex and his favorite...
| Author | Boris Pasternak |
| ISBN | 0810119099 |
Boris Pasternak, the Nobel laureate and author of Doctor Zhivago, composed one of the world's great love poems in My Sister—Life. Written in the summer of 1917, the cycle of poems focuses on personal journeys and loves but is permeated by the tension and promise of the impending October Revolution.
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| Author | Andrei Platonov |
| ISBN | 1860465161 |
People are on the move in all ten stories in this collection--coming home as in "The Return, "leaving home as in "Rubbish Wind, " traveling far away from their country as in "The Locks of Epiphan"--trying to improve their lives and those of others, searching and fleeing. Their journeys are accompanied...
| Author | Владимир Гиляровский |
Когда-то Москва была совсем другой, не той, что сейчас. И Владимир Гиляровский на протяжении десятилетий был её "летописцем". Именно благодаря ему мы можем...
| Author | Aleksandr Radishchev |
| ISBN | 0674485505 |
This took a while.
Now, this will most likely be long and rambling, of no interest to people who do not deal with Slavic linguistics, and simplistic and silly to those who actually do. So let's get to it.
Radishchev's book is one of the great classics of early Russian literature. It's...
| Author | Korney Chukovsky |
| ISBN | 0520002385 |
Some day a creative publisher is going to make a lot of money on a reprint of this unique little book. At its heart is a running anthology of various "mistakes" that Chukhovsky - one of, if not the greatest Russian children's writer - has heard kids say over the years. These are funny, fascinating, sad, absurd....
The Song of Igor’s Campaign is the most imaginative, celebrated, and studied work of early Russian literature. It describes a chivalric expedition undertaken in the late 12th century by a minor prince in the land of Rus’ to defeat, against overwhelming odds, a powerful alliance in a neighboring...
Рукопись этой книги более 30 лет пролежала в столе автора, который не предполагал ее публиковать. Попав прямо со школьной скамьи на самые кровавые участки...
Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia
| Author | Martin Malia |
| ISBN | 0684823136 |
"The Soviet Tragedy is an essential coda to the literature of Soviet studies...Insofar as [he] returns the power of ideology to its central place in Soviet history, Malia has made an enormous contribution. He has written the history of a utopian illusion and the tragic consequences it had for the people...
| Author | Ilya Ilf |
| ISBN | 1568986009 |
In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through humerous texts and the lens...
| Author | Alexander Pushkin |
| ISBN | 1933633735 |
Ivan Petrovich Belkin left behind a great number of manuscripts.... Most of them, as Ivan Petrovich told me, were true stories heard from various people.
First published anonymously in 1830, Alexander Pushkin’s Tales of Belkin contains his first prose works. It is comprised of an introductory...
| Author | Ales Adamovich |
| ISBN | 1844154580 |
Leningrad was under siege for almost three years, and the first winter of that siege was one of the coldest on record. The Russians had been taken by surprise by the Germans' sudden onslaught in June 1941.This book tells the story of that long, bitter siege in the words of those who were there. It vividly...
| Author | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| ISBN | 1880399938 |
Muy buena obra de teatro. Se trata de una sátira sobre la vida urbana durante la década de 1920 en Moscú. La revolución reciente, el absurdo, la corrupción, el oportunismo, todo tiene lugar en esta brillante pieza de Bulgakov. La aparición de este tipo de obras durante una dictadura creo que puede...
