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The Fatal Eggs, and Other Soviet Satire, 1918-1963 (Evergreen Book) by Mirra Ginsburg Synopsis This famous collection of Soviet satire from 1918 to 1963 devastatingly lampoons the social, economic, and cultural changes wrought by the Russian Revolution. Among the seventeen bold and inventive comic writers represented here are the brilliant Mikhail... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Way of Kinship: An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature by Alexander Vaschenko Publisher Comments That these treasures are available to us as writing is a miracle. . . . The writings here, while altogether modern in one sense, are based upon a literature, albeit oral, that has existed for thousands of years. They are the reflections of people who... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire by Mirra Ginsburg Publisher Comments A selection of short stories and parables dealing with life in Communist Russia by 18 noted Russian... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $10.65 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader (Viking Portable Library) by George Gibian Publisher Comments The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol's "The Overcoat"; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader (Penguin Classics) by Clarence Brown Publisher Comments Authoritative English translations of the modern Russian... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Glas New Russian Writing #51: The Scared Generation by Boris Yampolsky Publisher Comments Boris Yamplosky's The Old Arbat is a visceral portrait of fear under the Soviet regime: the inner state of a hunted man as he wanders around Moscow trying to escape the secret police. Finally, he overcomes fear by accepting the inevitable. In Vasil... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia by Jeff Parker and Mikhail Iossel Publisher Comments Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia showcases the work of Russian writers born in the twentieth century whose entire adult lives have been spent in post-Soviet circumstances. These stories show the range of aesthetics and subject matter the young... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Russian Short Stories From Pushkin To Buida (05 Edition) by Robert (ed.) Various Publisher Comments This original anthology of short stories covers two centuries of Russian literary tradition, from the early nineteenth century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, and includes not only well-known classics but also modern masterpieces&mdash... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Off the Beaten Tracks: Stories by Russian Hitchhikers (New Russian Writing) by Irina Bogatyreva Publisher Comments "Today an unusually gifted generation is entering Russian literature. . . . Literature has not seen such an influx of energy in a long time."Olga Slavnikova, director of the Debut Prize By and about Russian hitchhikers, these stories take the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction: Introduction to a Culture with CDROM by Nicholas Rzhevsky Publisher Comments - introduces Russian literature from the Igor Tale to village prose - integrates literature into the larger fabric of history, culture, and the arts - presents both new and classic translations, with helpful annotations - elucidates historical and... (read more) List Price $45.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader by And Brown Various Publisher Comments Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg,... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Way of Kinship: An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) by Alexander Vaschenko Publisher Comments That these treasures are available to us as writing is a miracle. . . . The writings here, while altogether modern in one sense, are based upon a literature, albeit oral, that has existed for thousands of years. They are the reflections of people who... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From Karamzin to Bunin: An Anthology of Russian Short Stories by Carl R Proffer Synopsis ... highly recommended.... This anthology of faithful translations of the classics is by far the best of its kind to come out for a long time. --Canadian Slavic... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fifty Years of Russian Prose From P Volume 1 by Krystyna Pomorska Publisher Comments The writings in this anthology represent a highly personal and qualitative selection from both the "golden period" of Russian prose immediately following the 1917 revolution and the period from Stalin's death to the present—a time of... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Glas #09: Scared Generation: The Generation of the 1960's by Boris Yampolsky Publisher Comments Ivan R. Dee is exclusive distributor in the United States and Canada for this highly praised series of new Russian writing, published several times each year in a trade paperback format.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Balancing Acts: Contemporary Stories by Russian Women by Helena Goscilo Book News Annotation Goscilo (Slavic studies, U. of Pittsburgh) has collected 19 stories by Russian women, written over the last 20 years. The work is a composite self-portrait of modern Russian womanhood. Dominant themes are the prevalence of the double-shift syndrome... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Penguin Book of New Russian Writing by Victor Erofeyev List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Penguin Book of Russian Short Stories by David Richards List Price $4.50 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Glasnost: An Anthology of Russian Literature under Gorbachev by Helena Goscilo TOC Our crowd / Lyudmila Petrushevskaya -- Old Hansan's pipe / Fazil Iskander -- Captain Dikshtein / Mikhail Kuraev -- Night / Tatyana Tolstaya -- Left behind / Vladimir Makanin -- The visit / Nikolai Shmelyov -- Dreams from the top berth / Valery Popov... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The New Soviet fiction :sixteen short stories by Sergei Zalygin TOC Introduction / Sergei Zalygin -- Pushkin's photograph (1799-2099) / Andrei Bitov -- Auto accident in Paris / Elchin -- No smiles / I. Grekova -- The sleeper / Valentin Kataev -- Cat-strangler silver / Viktor Konetsky -- Antileader / Vladimir Makanin -- A... (read more) Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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