Soviet Literature


The Master and Margarita
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
We
Roadside Picnic
Heart of a Dog
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years
Kolyma Tales
Doctor Zhivago
And Quiet Flows the Don
The Foundation Pit
Two Captains
The Dead Mountaineer's Inn
Autobiography of a Corpse
Black Snow
The Russian Forest
Yevgeny Zamyatin
All women are lips, nothing but lips. Some pink, firmly round---a ring, a tender protection against the whole world. But these: a second ago they did not exist, and now--a knife slit--and the sweet blood will drip down.
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

Sana Krasikov
Only then, as she prepared to cross the avenue, did she again spot the man in the fedora hat. He was at the opposite side of the street from where he’d stood before, but the caramel color of his coat was unmistakable. He was loitering in front of what looked like a Ford V8 parked nose-up on the sidewalk. Florence adjusted her shawl over her shoulders and crossed to the opposite corner of the plaza. When she turned back to look again, he was gone
Sana Krasikov, The Patriots

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