Russian literature

Book Reviews

• Svetlana Alexievich: Voices From Chernobyl*
  The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
• Paul Avrich: The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
  - fifty contemporary documents
• Yury Dombrovsky: The Faculty of Useless Knowledge*
  - a novel of Stalin's 1937 terror
• Lidiya Ginzburg: Blockade Diary
  - life during the siege of Leningrad
• Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov: The Twelve Chairs
  - a satirical novel of Soviet Russia in the 1920s
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn: August 1914*
  - a fictional account of the battle of Tannenberg
• Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky: Definitely Maybe
• Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky: Roadside Picnic*
• Leon Trotsky: On Literature and Art
  - a literary critic as well as a revolutionary and a political theorist
• Yevgeny Zamyatin: A Soviet Heretic*
  - essays on Russian literature from the decade after the Revolution

See also: Russia | world literature