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IN SEARCH OF MELANCHOLY BABY The prominent Russian writer describes his generation's with the forbidden and unaccessible American culture and his personal encounter with it a quarter of a century later. 343 pp. | Vassily Aksyonov | List Price$ 20 |
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THE SECRET HISTORY OF DRINKING IN RUSSIA No other social group has engaged in intensive drinking as the Russians have. It permeates all aspects of social intercourse to the point of self-destruction. For the first time, the authors reveal the secret roots of this phenomenon and the economic underpinning of it. 160 pp. |
Sergey Shakhmayev, Igor Kurukin |
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SOLDIER OF THE DEVIL A forceful and gripping struggle between a married woman and the mighty, indestructible eternal force of Satan. The events unfold in New York and end in Russia. Rosemary's Baby pales in comparison to Satan's Soldier. 240 pp. | Roman Solodovnikov | List Price$ 12 |
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SECRET DIARIES OF A RUSSIAN GYNECOLOGIST Indeed, no other vocation can go deeper into the unique women's world in Soviet Russia. The author is a world-renowned professor and presents startling portraits of mothers, husbands and prominent and historic personalities.170 pp. |
Mikhail Tsiryulnikov | List Price$ 12 |
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THE STAR OF CHERNOBYL Ms. Voznesenskaya, a founder of the Soviet feminist movement, presents a shocking true-life drama about the tragedy at Chernobyl and how it affected a family of three sisters. 210 pp. | Yuliya Voznesenskaya | List Price$ 15 |
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RUSSIAN MYTHOLOGIES The book is an expedition through Russian literature and history in search of the myths, which all Russian take for granted from childhood. The author's iconoclastic and irreverent approach to common sense combined with his wry paradoxical wit make this work an important contribution to understanding Russian culture.328 pp. | Yuri Druzhnikov | List Price$ 12 |
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ANGELS ON A NEEDLE'S HEAD Druzhnikov presents a unique gallery of portraits of the soviet writing intelligentsia, censors, writers, journalists and their millieu. This novel is considered to be the literary summery of the Brezhnev era. 552 pp. |
Yuri Druzhnikov | List Price$ 15 |
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MYTH OF RUSSIA One of Russia's most astute writers presents a literary philosophical essay on the historical destiny of Russia and its place in the family of nations. 182 pp. | Boris Khazanov | List Price$ 15 |
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POLYUSHKO POLEH Markish's true-life drama about the Ukrainian anarchist leader Nestor Makhno refutes the popular image of Makhno as a nationalist and an anti-Semite. 210 pp. | David Markish | List Price$ 13 |
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PECHAL'NY PERESMESHNIK This sad novel filled with unique characters uses humor to create an unforgetable portrait of an emigree writer who desparately seeks a place in the new European culture. Previous books by these two brothers who write in tandem have been translated into French and German and made into movies. 223 pp. | Lev & Alexander Shargorodski | List Price$ 13 |
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THE BOOK FOR GRANDDAUGHTERS A personal account of Russia's most famous and embarrassing defector who surprisingly returns to the Soviet Union. Unable to live in the embrace of the Soviet regime, she again successfully fights her way out to freedom in the West. Among Allilueyva's portraits are her Germanic grandmother, the ascending Gorbachev, Shevarnadze and the encounters with her long abandoned children. 164 pp. | Svetlana Alliluyeva | List Price$ 13 |
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THE FARAWAY MUSIC Stalin's daughter unveils the turbulent chapter of her life in the United States after her dramatic secret defection from the Soviet Union via India. Her search for a place in the Free World during the next fifteen years is filled with unique and personal revelations. 295 pp. | Svetlana Alliluyeva | List Price$ 15 |
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Friends and Shadows (In Leningrad) Shrayer presents an unforgetable gallery of prominent Soviet literari who shaped the literary scene of the last thirty years; Akhmatova, Aksyonov, Brodsky, Neiman, Bobyshev and more. 283 pp. | David Shrayer-Petrov | List Price$ 18 |
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In the High Society A highly refined portrait of the Soviet political elite and their children from the fifties through the eighties. The author who was sucked into this elite swears to himself to uncover their true faces. Bu the centripetal forces disarm his youthful zeal and he succumbs to the inertia of the dreary life and official duties. |
Vissarion Sisnev | List Price$ 20 |
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Storms and Khamsins of my Life The author reflects her youthful infatuation with communism, revolt against parents, university years in Leningrad and Moscow, war experiences, prison, post-war life, emigration to Israel and finally, as a result of an unspeakable tragedy escape to USA. It is a classical portrait of the generation that was born on the eve of the Soviet revolution. |
Sarah Khurgin | List Price$ 20 |
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Presumption of Guilt A striking novel about the life of Russian intelligentsia in the famous Akademgorodok in Novosibirsk that was once the apex of hope of every liberal in Russia. This island of science and hope has collapsed under the unfolding political events during the period of Perestroika and Glasnost. The travails and struggles of the main characters symbolically represent similar processes that took place throughout Russia. |
Larisa Matros | List Price$ 20 |
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