Does anyone know of some good fiction about the Stalin or Kruschev years?
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Re: Soviet Union fiction
Tue, June 15, 2004 - 10:29 AMI haven't seen much historic fiction. Most of it seems to be biography such as
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman
Or historic thrillers such as
Old Flames by John Lawton
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Re: Soviet Union fiction
Tue, June 15, 2004 - 1:03 PMThe best from the era I think is Master and Margarita by Bulgakov.
Hmmmm. Let me think of other good fiction about the Stalin Years.
Anything internal would have been censored and most of the externals are either biographies or memoirs. -
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Re: Soviet Union fiction
Tue, June 15, 2004 - 4:26 PMI just got done with Sofia Petrovna, which is part fiction part memoir about the Stalin years. It made me want to read more stories about that time period and also the subsequent era when things loosened up a bit. I'm interested in how people adjusted to the limited, cautious freedom after Stalin died (but before Breshnev) and how they responded to de-Stalinization. It would be nice to find something written at the time, although probably not published until after '89.
Certainly not opposed to a compelling memoir, if you know of any.
I'll take a look at Master and Margartia. thanks.
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