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“So the Cossacks can be heroic, but they have to lose, and do, to modern industrial Soviet forces of progress. But don’t let that trouble you, the scenes about Cossack village life are some of the best in all literature about rural lives. Think Tolstoy for the early twentieth century, a revolutionary age. The book is a grand, sweeping, historic epic, and earned its author a Nobel Prize.” Read more...
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Day of the Oprichnik
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The Brothers Karamazov
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The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
by Vladimir Nabokov -
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler
