Hope Against Hope
10 best books like Hope Against Hope (Nadezhda Mandelstam): Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, Sofia Petrovna, The White Guard, The First Circle, Горе от ума, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s, Kolyma Tales, Soul, Generations of Winter, روح پراگ
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
| Author | David Remnick |
| ISBN | 0679751254 |
If you are a hard line communist apparatchik about to launch a coup d’état against those who libel World Socialism and defame the noble memory of Stalin then here is some advice: plan your coup well and don’t confuse planning with plotting.
This is plotting:
the traitor Yeltsin...
| Author | Lydia Chukovskaya |
| ISBN | 0810111500 |
Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor's widow who works as a typist in a Leningrad publishing house. When her beloved son is caught up in the maelstrom of the purge, she joins the long lines of women outside the prosecutor's...
| Author | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| ISBN | 0099490668 |
Although less famous than Mikhail Bulgakov's comic hit, The Master and Margarita, The White Guard is still an engrossing book, though completely different in tone. It is set in Kiev during the Russian revolution and tells the story of the Turbin family and the war's effect on the middle-classes (not...
| Author | Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn |
| ISBN | 0810115905 |
Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, 'The First Circle' is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician.
At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has survived the war years on the German front and the postwar years in a succession of Russian prisons and labor...
| Author | Aleksandr Griboyedov |
| ISBN | 5080039159 |
"Горе от ума" - одна из первых русских комедий, разодранных на пословицы и поговорки, которыми до сих пор украшена речь всякого мало-мальски начитанного...
| Author | Sheila Fitzpatrick |
| ISBN | 0195050010 |
Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick depicts a world of privation, overcrowding, endless lines, and broken homes, in which the regime's promises of future socialist abundance...
| Author | Varlam Shalamov |
| ISBN | 0140186956 |
It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes...
A New York Review Books Original
The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime. In recent decades, however, these lost works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of Platonov’s vision have become ever more clear. For Nadezhda...
| Author | Vasily Aksyonov |
| ISBN | 0679761829 |
Magnífico de principio a fin... y mira que hay páginas entre uno y otro.
Los que disfrutaron de Vida y destino, de Grossman (comparten la misma traductora, Marta Rebón), disfrutarán aún más de este libro a poco que nuestros gustos se asemejen. Y digo disfrutar a pesar de las barbaridades...
در طول دو سال گذشته، بسیار سفر کردهام. شهرهای بسیاری را دیدهام و کلیساها، موزهها، باغها، و قصرهای بسیار. این دیدارها ملغمه غریبی از احساسات و تأثرات...
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
| Author | Rosemary Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0062206109 |
The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history’s most monstrous dictators—her father, Josef Stalin.
Born in the early years of the Soviet Union,...
