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Heavy Sand
The German occupation breaks up a harmonious community of Russian Jews, Ukrainians, Poles, and Belorussians and turns it into a ghetto that almost none survive
The Bronze Bird
Sequel to Kortik, originally published in the magazine Ionust' (Youth); it appeared in book form in 1957. The idea for the work came from a marble inkstand decorated with a bronze bird that stood on Rybakov's desk. The stand broke when he was moving to a new residence, and he saw that the bird was hollow. The thought occurred to him that the bird would be a good hiding place. In this work, Misha Poliakov has become a Youth Pioneer leader.
Fear
The sequel to "Children of the Arbat". It continues the story of Sasha Pankratov, the Russian student unjustly arrested in 1934 for a flippant remark in a school newspaper, and interweaves his exile in Siberia and eventual return to the madness of Stalin's Great Purge.
Dust and Ashes
A novel of the Soviet Union's struggle against the Nazis. The hero is Sasha Pankratov, a prisoner rescued from the gulag by the onset of World War II. He becomes a tank commander, a position that propels him from the desolation of Siberia to the rubble of Stalingrad and, ultimately, to the streets of Berlin. By the author of Children of the Arbat.
Children of the Arbat
Chilling portrait of Stalin & his terror and its impact on a generation of young friends living in Moscow's Arbat.
Voices of Jewish-Russian Literature
Edited by Maxim D. Shrayer, a leading specialist in Russia’s Jewish culture, this definitive anthology of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, nonfiction and poetry by eighty Jewish-Russian writers explores both timeless themes and specific tribulations of a people’s history. A living record of the rich and vibrant legacy of Russia’s Jews, this reader-friendly and comprehensive anthology features original English translations. In its selection and presentation, the anthology tilts in favor of human interest and readability. It is organized both chronologically and topically (e.g. “Seething Times: 1860s-1880s”; “Revolution and Emigration: 1920s-1930s”; “Late Soviet...
Children of the Arbat
The Arbat was the intellectual and artistic center of Moscow. It was there that they lived: a group of young friends who represented a generation, one that would live through the darkest period in Soviet history--when Stalin came into power and ruled his country through fear.
An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature
This definitive anthology gathers stories, essays, memoirs, excerpts from novels, and poems by more than 130 Jewish writers of the past two centuries who worked in the Russian language. It features writers of the tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods, both in Russia and in the great emigrations, representing styles and artistic movements from Romantic to Postmodern. The authors include figures who are not widely known today, as well as writers of world renown. Most of the works appear here for the first time in English or in new translations. The editor of the anthology, Maxim D. Shrayer of Boston College, is a leading authority on Jewish-Russian literature. The selections were chosen not...
Monumental Propaganda
From Vladimir Voinovich, one of the great satirists of contemporary Russian literature, comes a new comic novel about the absurdity of politics and the place of the individual in the sweep of human events. Monumental Propaganda, Voinovich’s first novel in twelve years, centers on Aglaya Stepanovna Revkina, a true believer in Stalin, who finds herself bewildered and beleaguered in the relative openness of the Khrushchev era. She believes her greatest achievement was to have browbeaten her community into building an iron statue of the supreme leader, which she moves into her apartment after his death. And despite the ebb and flow of political ideology in her provincial town, she stubbornly, ...
