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3) Kompromiss
Author
Series
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
Sergei Dovlatov's The Compromise is set in Brezhnev-era Soviet Talinn, where, among other equally and even more absurd things, it was decided that "the four-hundredth-thousandth inhabitant of Talinn" would be born on the eve of a jubilee marking the anniversary of the city's liberation. This child would not only be born happy, but would even be "condemned to happiness". The contradiction in terms between condemnation and happiness is lost on the Soviet...
Author
Publisher
AST
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Russian
Description
Novai͡a kniga Mikhaila Vellera "Strannik i ego strana" v prikli͡uchencheskoĭ forme raskryvaet sobytii͡a "zolotoĭ brezhnevskoĭ ėpokhi" Sovetskogo Soi͡uza. V ostrykh si͡uzhetakh smeshany i͡umor i nostalʹgii͡a: pered chitatelem prokhodi͡at okhotniki i lesoruby, studenty i zhurnalisty, brachnye aferisty i arkheologi. V knigu voshli takzhe samye uvlekatelʹnye i avanti͡urnye chasti izdannoĭ neskolʹko let nazad "Mishakherezady"; byvshiĭ...
Author
Publisher
E. Arnold
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
This book is a concise introduction to the complexities of the Soviet system, focusing on issues of general concern. It looks at the processes of decision-making, the continuities and changes between Imperial and Soviet Russia, and the divergences between ideals and reality in the Soviet Union.
20) Russian journal
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
A journal of a black American's trip to the Soviet Union in the early 1980s.