Soviet Books

[Taiga]

There is a great site that provides the best Russian and Soviet books in English.
Russica (http://home.freeuk.com/russica2/index.html)

I want to suggest my favourite ones.

The Heart of a Dog (http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/dog_w6.rar)
Mikhail Bulgakov
The book was banned in the USSR since 1924. Its publication is the result of Glastnost period.

A Story About a Real Man (http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/man_w6.rar)
Boris Polevoi
World War II. A real story. A pilot loses his legs, but flies.

How the Steel Was Tempered - Part 1 (http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/steel1_w6.zip)
How the Steel Was Tempered - Part 2 (http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/steel2_w6.zip)
Nikolai Ostrovsky
A novel-autobiography of a staunch Communist. Russian Civil War, Industialization. Extremely intolerant and class struggle motivated. One of the best monuments of the epoch.

Ordeal - a trilogy
The Sisters - Book 1 (http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/ordeal1_w6.rar)
1918 - Book 2 (http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/ordeal2_w6.rar)
Bleak Morning - Book 3 (http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/ordeal3_w6.rar)
Alexei Tolstoy
Novels. The First World War, revolutions in Russia, Civil War. The Western translation is known as "Road to Calvary"

Andromeda (http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/andr_w6.rar)
Ivan Efremov
Utopian fantasy, future Communist society.

The Black Book and Schwambrania
The Black Book (http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/bbk1_w6.rar)
Schwambrania (http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/bbk2_w6.rar)
Lev Kassil
Novel in two parts. The writer's childhood reminiscences. Beginning of the revolution.

Timur and his Squad (http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/timur_w6.rar)
Arkady Gaidar
The young pioneers helping the people around. One of the leading propaganda books in the USSR.

[Taiga]

Not that I'm a necromancer :D but I've found one more nice book and don't want to make one more thread.

The Old Fortress - a trilogy
The Old Fortress - book 1 (http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/fort1_w6.rar)
The Old Fortress - book 2 - tThe Haunted House (http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/fort2_w6.rar)
The Old Fortress - book 3 - The House By The Sea (http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/fort3_w6.rar)
Vladimir Belayev
Civil War in the Ukraine. Class struggle motivated and intolerant.Book 3 was rarely published after destalinization of the U.S.S.R.
Word 6 in Rar archive. book 1 - 213 kb, book 2 - 159 kb, book 3 - 292 kb

[Vladislav]

Originally posted by [email protected] 25 2005, 05:00 AM
The Heart of a Dog (http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/dog_w6.rar)
Mikhail Bulgakov
The book was banned in the USSR since 1924. Its publication is the result of Glastnost period.

Got all of em. Haven't read any. (My mum is a book freak).

Yeah you seen the movie of that?

Собачое сердтце (sp?)

[Xiao Banfa]

A Story About a Real Man
Boris Polevoi
World War II. A real story. A pilot loses his legs, but flies.

I've seen a movie of this. It was salvaged from a bin that the communist party of new zealand had chucked movies into.

Ignorant bastards.

BTW, soviet movies are cool.

[Taiga]

Originally posted by [email protected] 11 2006, 11:42 AM
Got all of em. Haven't read any. (My mum is a book freak).

Yeah you seen the movie of that?

Собачое сердтце (sp?)
It's Собачье сердце :)

And yes, I've seen the movie. About 15 times I guess :D . It's one of the best movies I've seen ever. Love the book and love the movie.

And I think you should read at least some of these wonderful books. ;)

[St.-Just]

What about We byYevgeny Zamyatin

[The Grey Blur]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/Jones_carnage.jpeg

Best Soviet book ever. Preach the truth people.

[Comrade Marcel]

Originally posted by St.-[email protected] 12 2006, 06:17 PM
What about We byYevgeny Zamyatin
That's not really a Soviet book... Wasn't he living in Newcastle when he wrote it? :rolleyes:

I guess one could count it, if they wanted too. :P

Anyways...

My favourite Soviet novel of all time is Nisso by Pavel Luknitsky.

After that, probably Maxim Gorky's trilogy My Childhood / My Apprenticeship / My Universities. Mother is a great novel as well.

I also love Mikhail Sholokov's Virgin Soil Upturned and Chingis Aitmatov's Tales of the Mountains and the Steppes, which contains three of his short novels: Jamila, Duishen and Farewell, Gyulsary!.

Those are definately ones I like best. :)