Red Cavalry and Other Stories
10 best books like Red Cavalry and Other Stories (Isaac Babel): Collected Stories, Sofia Petrovna, Poems of Akhmatova, The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture, Memories of the Future, Marx, Poor Folk and Other Stories, Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida, Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi, The Noise of Time: Selected Prose
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0141183454 |
A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an astonishing...
| 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 | Anna Akhmatova |
| ISBN | 0395860032 |
Anna Akhmatova by Natan Altman (1914)
Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966) lived through the worst years of the 20th century in one of the worst locations in which to be a poet unwilling to play the role of a trained parrot for the ruthless and murderous apes running the country. Born in Odessa,...
| Author | James H. Billington |
| ISBN | 0394708466 |
While a decent attempt at getting the Russian culture, it was just that, an attempt. Patchy.
For example, Scythians and Slavic paganism and the gathering of the ancient peoples, out of which the Kiev Rus was created are dismissed, along with everything folk, all legends. I don't think the great...
| Author | Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky |
| ISBN | 1590173198 |
Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room;...
| Author | Corinne Maier |
| ISBN | 1907704833 |
Karl Marx dreamt of a world free from exploitation, inequality, and unemployment. Growing up in a rapacious capitalist society, Marx sought to address the evils of the world through new ways of thinking. His solution? Revolution!
Marx is the second in Corinne Maier and Anne Simon's collection...
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0140445056 |
Poor Folk was Dostoyevsky's first great triumph in fiction and the work that looks forward to the double-acts and obsessions of his later genius. It takes place in a world of office , lodging-house and seamstress's rooms and consists of an impoverished love affair in letters between a copy clerk and...
| Author | Robert Chandler |
| ISBN | 0140448462 |
From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy,...
Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In pre-revolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s and 1930s, she wrote some of her finest...
| Author | Osip Mandelstam |
| ISBN | 0810119285 |
Collected prose works by one of Russia's towering literary figures. Osip Mandelstam has in recent years come to be seen as a central figure in European modernism. Though known primarily as a poet, Mandelstam worked in many styles: autobiography, short story, travel writing, and polemic. Mandelstam's...
| Author | Ivan Bunin |
| ISBN | 0140185526 |
A much neglected literary figure, Ivan Bunin is one of Russia's major writers and ranks with Tolstoy and Chekhov at the forefront of the Russian Realists. Drawing artistic inspiration from his personal experience, these powerful, evocative stories are set in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century...
| Author | Clarence Brown |
| ISBN | 0142437573 |
Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and...
| Author | Mikhail Zoshchenko |
| ISBN | 0253201926 |
Typical targets of Zoshchenko's satire are the Soviet bureaucracy, crowded conditions in communal apartments, marital infidelities and the rapid turnover in marriage partners, and "the petty-bourgeois mode of life, with its adulterous episodes, lying, and similar nonsense." His devices are...
Moscow in the 1930s is the consummate symbol of the Soviet paradise, a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin's words, "life has become better, life has become merrier". In Happy Moscow Platonov exposes the gulf between this premature triumphalism and the harsh reality of low living standards and...
| Author | Tatyana Tolstaya |
| ISBN | 0394577981 |
A collection of thirteen short stories translated from the Russian. The author is distantly related to Tolstoy (a great-grand-niece).
In Loves Me, Loves Me Not, two little girls reflect back on their ugly nanny and how much they hated her.
In Sweet Shura, a woman in her late 80’s...
| Author | Leonid Andreyev |
| ISBN | 1425478158 |
The Red Laugh is an utterly harrowing and nightmarish depiction of a sort of apocalypse that springs from the chaos, blood, and misery of Russia's humiliating defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, in language that prophetically echoes the horrors to come during the First World War. Centered on two nameless...
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0140447857 |
The Steppe and Other Stories 1887-91 is a collection that reveals Anton Chekhov's evolution from a novice writer to a master of short narrative form. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Donald Rayfield.
This collection of Chekhov's finest...
| Author | Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski |
| ISBN | 8375062618 |
Antoni Ferdynand Ossendowski - podróżnik, szpieg, awanturnik, wojownik, uczony, dyplomata, poliglota, dziennikarz i wielki erudyta. Podobne określenia można by przytaczać bez końca. Jest drugim po Henryku Sienkiewiczu najbardziej znanym polskim pisarzem na świecie, czego dowodem...
