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The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002
The nail in the coffin of the Soviet State
+ Encyclopedic in Scope. Please Click on Links Below to My Unabridged-Version Reviews
+ A soul-shaking earthquake of a book...
+ The single greatest literary work of the twentieth century.
+ A STYLISTIC ACHIEVEMENT ALSO
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Eugene Onegin and Other Poems: and Other Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Alexander Pushkin
Everyman's Library, 1999
A Classic Best Read in Russian
+ A Russian Classic
+ As Good As It Gets
+ Wonderful Book
+ a book of a master piece
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
only one day in the gulag
+ Five Star Book of Five Star Books
+ Icy, Enduring, Classic ...
+ An important book
+ Frightening Insight Into the Dark Side of Mankind
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The Cambridge History of Russian Literature
Cambridge University Press, 1992
a must!
it's great! never use another reference book!
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Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
Orlando Figes
Picador, 2003
Portrait of a complex, unique culture
+ The third side of the Russian coin.
+ Like Taking An Excellent College Overview Course
+ a Slice of History
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The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy
Signet Classics, 2003
Wonderful
+ Tolstoy Wrote with the Mind of God
+ An Examination of a Soul.
+ Powerful and deep
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Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
Anna Politkovskaya
Holt Paperbacks, 2007
Excellent! True to Life...
+ Politkovskaya's prophecies turned out to be true
+ revelation of a Tyrant
+ Should Be Required Reading
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The Art and Architecture of Russia: Third Edition (The Yale University Press Pelican Histor)
George Heard Hamilton
Yale University Press, 1992
scholarly books aren't always "pretty"
This book is a volume in a scholarly series designed to present the largest number of pictures and plans at a reasonable price (I know, $30 is hardly cheap, but look at some prices for scholarly books). It is not meant to be much fun. Sorry!
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The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader (Viking Portable Library)
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1993
One of the great periods of world literature- anthologized
+ Re: Contents listing below by stonechat
+ everything important right here!
Nineteenth century Russia Literature is one of the great Literatures of Mankind. Consider 'War and Peace' and 'Karamozov' Tolstoy and Dostoevsky alone, two of the giants. But also in that century Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Turgenev, Chekhov other very major writers.
In this anthology there are ...
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Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Perennial Classics)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004
An Excellent Collection
+ Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
+ Unrelenting Brilliance
This collection can be recommended to anyone interested in sampling Dostoyesvky's shorter fiction; it contains within the one volume a good number of stories which in other editions (Penguin and Oxford) fill more than one volume. The short stories themselves are just sublime and should not be ...
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Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics
Nina L. Khrushcheva
Yale University Press, 2008
Shades of exile, reflections in time, echos in space
+ Transcends literary criticism
+ Khrushcheva and Nabokov Go to High School
+ Statues and Souls
+ Timely and original
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Peter the Great
Robert K. Massie
Ballantine Books, 1986
The best history book ever
+ A masterpiece of Russian history
+ A Detailed but Infinitely Readable Biography of a fascinating Man.
+ SUPERB BOOK
+ Massie's best book
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Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia
Suzanne Massie
Hearttree Press, 1980
Well worth the price
+ A Rich and Beautiful Book
+ epic and intimate
+ The Right Stuff
+ All time favorite
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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring; The Firebird Suite (1919)
Sergey Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, ...
Sony, 2004
Three Le Sacres from Bernstein
+ The "Right" Of Spring
+ WOW.
+ Commonplace "Rite"... and a TERRIFIC "Firebird"
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The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Cambridge University Press, 1998
The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of a tradition that produced some of the most influential novels of the Western world. In newly-commissioned essays by prominent scholars, the work of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and many others is described and discussed. There is a chronology and guide to further ...
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