Russian & Soviet

For the last 20 years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us....

Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....

Step into the rich history and culture of Mother Russia with this classic collection by esteemed writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. With his penchant for gripping prose and powerful themes that unmasked the social struggles and intellectual clashes of his day....

The Master and Margarita is one of the most famous and best-selling Russian novels of the 20th century, despite its surreal environment....

From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace: a lavish, masterfully rendered volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time....

The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy....

A Confession, or My Confession, is a short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion by the acclaimed Russian...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is universally regarded as one of literature's finest...

Кобзар - збірка поетичних творів геніального українського митця Тараса Григоровича Шевченка, що увібрала в собі найбільш видатні його вірші та поеми....

In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition....

Yuri Bezmenov (1939-January 5, 1993) was a Soviet journalist for RIA Novosti and a former KGB informant who defected to Canada in 1971. After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and the culture of India....

Russian short stories are known for being melancholy, often dealing with suffering. However, they can also be funny and absurd....

"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history....

Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Lesley Manville and Harriet Walter are among the cast of BBC Radio 4's epic full-cast dramatisation....

A work that has inspired generations, this new edition of Letters to a Young Poet features a fresh translation of Rilke's 10 classic letters, along with the missing letters from the young poet himself....

The Three Sisters is Anton Chekhov's 1901 play about the Prosorov family, who are stuck in a provincial Russian town....

Here are 11 short stories and one novella by Anton Chekhov, one of the finest masters of what is acknowledged as a difficult genre....

The true but unlikely stories of lives devoted - absurdly! Melancholically! Beautifully! - to the Russian classics....

Evgenii Onegin is best known in the West through Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin. But the original narrative poem is one of the landmarks of Russian literature....

The Seagull is Anton Chekhov's first major play, originally produced in 1896. It dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters....

Роман  "Анна Каренина" был написан Л. Н. Толстым в 1877 году, а год спустя...

Alexander Pushkin's greatest short story....

The collection includes the best works of famous Russian writers Fyodor Dostoevesky, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, and more....

Grigori Aleksandrovich Pechorin is an enigma: arrogant, cocky, melancholic, brave, cynic, romantic, loner, socialite, soldier, free soul, and yet, victim of the world, he eludes definition....

"Die Russische Seele ist ein Rätsel." Fjodor Dostojewski. Über 11 Stunden Russland zum Hören. Russland hat eine Vielzahl herausragender...