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  • 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution

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    by Boris Dralyuk ...
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  • Grey Bees

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  • Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood

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  • Green Ice

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  • The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

    An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski.In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporaries ushering in the 'Golden Age' of Russian literature. Prose briefly gained the high ground in the ... Read more

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  • Lives and Deaths

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    by Leo Tolstoy ...
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    Fresh translations of Tolstoy's four richest shorter works by the award-winning Boris DralyukTolstoy's stories contain many of the most acutely observed moments in his monumental body of work. This new selection of his shorter works, sensitively translated by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk, showcases the peerless economy with which Tolstoy could render the passions and conflicts of a life.These ... Read more

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  • Red Cavalry

    by Isaac Babel ...
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    Based on Babel's own diaries that he wrote during the Russo-Polish war of 1920, Red Cavalry is a lyrical, unflinching and often startlingly ironic depiction of the violence and horrors of war. A classic of modern fiction, the short stories are as powerful today as they were when they burst onto the Russian literary landscape nearly a century ago. The narrator, a Russian-Jewish intellectual, ... Read more

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