Kategoria BISAC: Literary Collections >> Russian & Former Soviet Union

Ivanov, a driving force in local government and a visionary landowner, feels burnt out at thirty-five. Once the pioneer of scientific farming methods and of education for peasants, he now drowns in bureaucracy and debt, his large estate neglected. While his wife is dying, Sacha, a young, educated woman, falls in love with Ivanov and determines to save him.

The Road brings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of Life and Fate, providing new insight into the life and work of this extraordinary writer. The stories range from Grossman's first success, "In the Town of Berdichev," a piercing reckoning with the cost of war, to such haunting later works as "Mama," based on the life of a girl who was adopted at the height of the Great Terror by the head of the NKVD and packed off to an orphanage after her father's downfall. The girl grows up struggling with the discovery that the...

For those who cannot read the language of the original texts, the lively and varied world of eighteenth-century Russian literature has been largely inaccessible. In this valuable collection, expert translator David Gasperetti presents three seminal tales that express the major literary, social, and philosophical concerns of late-eighteenth-century Russia.
The country s first bestseller, Matvei Komarov s "Vanka Kain" tells the story of a renowned thief and police spy and is also an excellent historical source on the era s criminal underworld. Mikhail Chulkov s "The Comely Cook" is a...

Ilya and the Wolf Pack

The One-eyed Demon

The Midnight Visitor

Crossing the Don

Two Comrades

Frost

Ivashko

The Headless Princess

Lukan's Ladder

The Steed and the Stone

The Fiddler in Hell

Sozh and Dnieper

The Shroud

The Warrior and the Warlock

Mother Friday

The Witch of Death

The Two Corpses

The Woodland Damsel

The Blind Man and the Cripple

The Immortal...

Leon Trotsky: Writings in Exile contains some of his most insightful and penetrating works. Exiled and isolated by Stalin, Trotsky used the only weapon he had left - words. In these writings he defends the 1917 revolution, warns prophetically of fascism and analyses anti-colonial movements in the global south.

This collection gives a sense of the real Trotsky - passionate, humanist,...