Russian literature

Book Reviews

• Narine Abgaryan: Three Apples Fell from the Sky
  - life revives in an Armenian mountain village
• Boris Akunin: Turkish Gambit
  - a mystery novel set in the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War
• Svetlana Alexievich: Voices From Chernobyl*
  The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
• Paul Avrich: The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
  - fifty contemporary documents
• Elif Batuman: The Possessed
  Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
• Antony Beevor, Luba Vinogradova: A Writer at War*
  Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
• Nina Berberova: Billancourt Tales
  - stories of Paris' White Russian community around 1930
• Mikhail Bulgakov: A Country Doctor's Notebook
  - stories of medical work in rural Russia in 1917
• Ivan Bunin: The Village
  - a novel of rural life in 1905 Russia
• Yury Dombrovsky: The Faculty of Useless Knowledge*
  - a novel of Stalin's 1937 terror
• Yuri Druzhnikov: Passport to Yesterday
  - looking back at a childhood in WWII Russia
• Yuri Druzhnikov: Pushkin's Second Wife
  And Other Micronovels
• 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
• Victor Serge: The Case of Comrade Tulayev**
  - the outstanding novel of Stalin's purges
• 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
• Venedikt Yerofeev: Moscow Stations*
  - a tragi-comic existentialist masterpiece
• Leonid Yuzefovich: Harlequin's Costume
  - a political murder mystery in 1871 St Petersburg
• Yevgeny Zamyatin: A Soviet Heretic*
  - essays on Russian literature from the decade after the Revolution

See also: Russia | world literature