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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

ISBN 0671009761 (0-671-00976-1)
Softcover, Monarch Notes

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Screenplay
by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, Ronald Harwood, Gillon R. Aitken

ISBN 0722180217 (0-7221-8021-7)
Hardcover, Sphere

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And Quiet Flows the Don
by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

ISBN 1589633431 (1-58963-343-1)
Softcover, Fredonia Books

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And Quiet Flows the Don
by Brian Murphy, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Robert Daglish

ISBN 0786703601 (0-7867-0360-1)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub

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And Quiet Flows the Don
by Mikhail Sholokhov, Stephen Garry

ISBN 0679725210 (0-679-72521-0)
Softcover, Random House, Incorporated

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The first episode in Mikhail Sholokhov's portrayal of life in a Cossack village, 1910-20. In it he juxtaposes the character of Gregor, a proud and rebellious peasant farmer, against that of Misha, an obedient Party man. The author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965. [via]
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Bulgakov: The Heart of a Dog
by A Pyman

ISBN 1853993409 (1-85399-340-9)
Softcover, Bristol Classical Pr

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From the author of MASTER AND MARGARITA, BLACK SNOW and DIABOLIAD, a novel which features a Moscow professor who befriends a stray dog and transplants into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man, unleashing a human dog which turns the professor's life into a nightmare beyond endurance. [via]
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Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

ISBN 0374511993 (0-374-51199-3)
Softcover, Noonday Pr

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Like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn the hero, Oldg Kostoglotov, spent many years in labour camps and was eventually transferred to a cancer ward. This study of how people confront terminal illness is also a dissection of the "cancerous" Soviet police state. [via]
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Cancer Ward
by Nicholas Bethell, David Burg, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

ISBN 0679601635 (0-679-60163-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

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Like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn the hero, Oldg Kostoglotov, spent many years in labour camps and was eventually transferred to a cancer ward. This study of how people confront terminal illness is also a dissection of the "cancerous" Soviet police state. [via]
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Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler, Daphne Hardy

ISBN 1416540261 (1-4165-4026-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak

ISBN 0394422236 (0-394-42223-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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n celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is the only paperback edition now available of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. [via]
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Doktor Zhivago
by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, E. B. Pasternak, V. M. Borisov

ISBN 5870870070 (5-87087-007-0)
Hardcover, Izd-vo Troika

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Dr. Zhivago
by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

ISBN 0394607864 (0-394-60786-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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n celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is the only paperback edition now available of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. [via]
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El Doctor Zhivago / The Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Max Hayward, Manya Harari

ISBN 1857150414 (1-85715-041-4)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library

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n celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is the only paperback edition now available of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. [via]
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The First Circle
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

ISBN 0060916834 (0-06-091683-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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A major literary event 50 years in the making:In the First Circle is the first complete English translation of Nobel Prizewinner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyns best novel (Washington Post). With an introduction by Edward Erickson, this work by the author of The Gulag Archipelago is the story of a brilliant mathematician who finds himself locked in a Moscow prison filled with the countrys brightest minds and must decide whether to aid Stalins repressive state. [via]
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Gorky Park: A Novel
by Martin Cruz Smith

ISBN 0345298349 (0-345-29834-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Brilliant . . . enough enigmas within enigmas within enigmas to reel the mind.
The New Yorker

A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and the New York City police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fur dealer. Meanwhile, Renko is falling in love with a beautiful, headstrong dissident for whom he may risk everything.

Once one gets going, one doesnt want to stop. . . . The action is gritty, the plot complicated, [and] the overriding quality is intelligence.
The Washington Post

Reminds you just how satisfying a smoothly turned thriller can be. The New York Times Book Review

An unbelievable achievement . . . vivid, witty . . . completely fascinating.
Boston Herald American

Gripping, romantic, and dazzlingly original.
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Gulag: A History
by Anne Applebaum

ISBN 1400034094 (1-4000-3409-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Gulag: A History, by Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum, is a cogent, meticulously researched exposé of the Soviet system of institutionalized terror, repression, and punishment that, over the course of the 20th century, turned the world's largest nation into a vast concentration camp and mass grave. Applebaum investigates the gulag from its origins just after the Russian Revolution through its expansion under Stalin's reign to its collapse during the period of glasnost and the fall of communism. She draws on original research, as well as recently released archival material and memoirs by both "ordinary" survivors and those who would become literary giants, like Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and Polish novelist Gustav Herling-Grudzinski, who wrote A World Apart based on his experiences in the camps. She describes the categories of prisoner--an estimated 18 million between 1929 and 1953, the year Stalin died--who from "the very earliest days of the new Soviet state&were to be sentenced not for what they had done, but for who they were": old Bolsheviks, deportees from Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II, repatriated Soviet POWs, foreign communists, dissidents, the man, woman or child on the street--political prisoners mixed with common criminals. Anyone who could be perceived as a threat or traitor or simply a needed body was arrested, tortured, and used as slave labor to extract natural resources from remote corners of Siberia, work on absurdly ambitious transportation and energy projects, and build the Soviet economy. The reasons for incarceration; the journeys to the outposts; the strategies for survival of prisoners subjected to cold, starvation, rape; the types of heavy labor; the conditions for women and children; the political structure within the camp--these are just some of the broad themes that Applebaum tackles.
Deftly melding generality with specificity, Applebaum allows the individual to speak for the many and, in the process, paints a horrifying portrait of a nation forged from paranoia and the terror invoked by the arbitrary exercise of power that tore apart families and enslaved, brutalized, and murdered millions. By giving voice to the millions who disappeared into unmarked graves in an eight-decade-long episode in human history that rivaled the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Applebaum makes an invaluable contribution to a growing body of re-evaluative literature that will, hopefully, inspire a thoughtful consideration of our collective past, and a more critical awareness our present. --Diana Kuprel [via]
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Gulag / Gulag: Historia de los Campos de Concentracion Sovieticos / History of the Soviet Concentration Camps
by Anne Applebaum

ISBN 8497937708 (84-9793-770-8)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

ISBN 186046632X (1-86046-632-X)
Softcover, Harvill Pr

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[This is the MP3CD audiobook format of VOLUME 2 in vinyl case.]

**Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century**

In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917.

This second volume in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' ''destructive-labor camps'' and the fate of prisoners in them--felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold without equipment or adequate food and clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners and the luckless children they bear.

Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter, a parody of an anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new heights of sardonic wit. In the final section the music changes, and he provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering. [via]
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, H.T. Willetts, Thomas P. Whitney

ISBN 0813332893 (0-8133-3289-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyns attempt to compile a literary-historical record of the vast system of prisons and labor camps that came into being shortly after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917 and that underwent an enormous expansion during the rule of Stalin from 1924 to 1953. Various sections of the three volumes describe the arrest, interrogation, conviction, transportation, and imprisonment of the Gulags victims by Soviet authorities over four decades. The work mingles historical exposition and Solzhenitsyns own autobiographical accounts with the voluminous personal testimony of other inmates that he collected and committed to memory during his imprisonment.Upon publication of the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn was immediately attacked in the Soviet press. Despite the intense interest in his fate that was shown in the West, he was arrested and charged with treason on February 12, 1974, and was exiled from the Soviet Union the following day.
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The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
by Robert Conquest

ISBN 0195051807 (0-19-505180-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and collectivization, the abolition of private ownership of land and the concentration of the remaining peasants in party-controlled "collective" farms. This was followed in 1932-33 by a "terror-famine," inflicted by the State on the collectivized peasants of the Ukraine and certain other areas by setting impossibly high grain quotas, removing every other source of food, and preventing help from outside--even from other areas of the Soviet Union--from reaching the starving populace. The death toll resulting from the actions described in this book was an estimated 14.5 million--more than the total number of deaths for all countries in World War I.

Ambitious, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, The Harvest of Sorrow is a deeply moving testament to those who died, and will register in the Western consciousness a sense of the dark side of this century's history. [via]
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Havana Bay
by Martin Cruz Smith

ISBN 0679426620 (0-679-42662-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

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In this fourth book in Martin Cruz Smith's splendid series, an amiable Irish American gangster explains to Arkady Renko what he and the other 84 wanted Americans hiding out in Cuba do with themselves. "We try to stay alive. Useful. Tell me, Arkady, what are you doing here?" "The same," says Renko--and it's true. His life as a Russian cop has become so bleak and lonely that he takes any opportunity to shake things up, even spending his own savings to fly to Havana when an old colleague is found dead--floating inside an inner tube after night-fishing in Havana Bay. Renko sets out to make himself useful in this shabby, fascinating, haunted country whose inhabitants look on Russians with the cold disdain of survivors of a nasty divorce.
As he did so well in Gorky Park, Smith again makes Renko very much a classic Russian hero in temperament and tradition, but also the eternal outsider. He is at times close to the edge of despair--but his trip to Havana restores his natural curiosity and life force.
In this hot Havana, ripe with the fruity smell of sex, Renko keeps his Moscow overcoat on--until an equally idealistic and out-of-place young female cop gets him to loosen up. There's an unusually complex plot, even for the sly strand-spinner Smith. He raises baffling questions: Why would a group of military plotters order illegal lobsters in a fancy restaurant and then not eat them? And his descriptions of Cuban life are dead-on, reminding us on every page what a superb stylist he is. --Dick Adler [via]
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Heart of a Dog
by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov

ISBN 1860460828 (1-86046-082-8)
Softcover, Harvill, HarperCollins Publishers, Limited

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This hilarious, brilliantly inventive novel by the author of The Master and Margarita tells the story of a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Thanks to the skills of a renowned Soviet scientist and the transplanted pituitary gland and testes of a petty criminal, Sharik is transformed into a lecherous , vulgar man who spouts Engels and inevitably finds his niche in the bureaucracy as the government official in charge of purging the city of cats.
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Heart of a Dog
by Mikhail Bulgakov, Michael Glenny

ISBN 1860466400 (1-86046-640-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square

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This early novella from Mikhail Bulgakov, published in 1925, already shows the surreal comic genius that later produced The Master and Margarita, the writer's masterpiece. A kind of Frankenstein parable, Heart of a Dog is the story of a stray dog that gains a human intelligence after a prominent Moscow professor transplants human glands into the unfortunate canine's body. [via]
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Heart of a Dog
by Mirra Ginsburg, Mikhail Bulgakov

ISBN 0394623800 (0-394-62380-0)
Softcover, Grove Press

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This hilarious, brilliantly inventive novel by the author of The Master and Margarita tells the story of a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Thanks to the skills of a renowned Soviet scientist and the transplanted pituitary gland and testes of a petty criminal, Sharik is transformed into a lecherous , vulgar man who spouts Engels and inevitably finds his niche in the bureaucracy as the government official in charge of purging the city of cats.
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The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture
by James H. Billington

ISBN 0844667544 (0-8446-6754-4)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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"A rich and readable introduction to the whole sweep of Russian cultural and intellectual history from Kievan times to the post-Khruschev era." - Library Journal. Illustrations, references, index. [via]
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by David Remnick

ISBN 0679751254 (0-679-75125-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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"...the most eloquent chronicle of the Soviet empire's demise." --Washington Post Book World
"...an extraordinary confluence of observation, hard work, knowledge, and reflection; a better book by a journalist on the withdrawing roar of the Soviet Union is hard to imagine." --The New York Times Book Review [via]
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The Life & Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
by Vladimir Voinovich, Richard Lourie

ISBN 0810112434 (0-8101-1243-4)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr

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Master And Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov, Michael Karpelson

ISBN 1411683056 (1-4116-8305-6)
Softcover, Lulu.Com

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A mysterious stranger and his retinue have astonished the locals of Stalins Moscow with the magic show to end all magic shows and have quite literally set the town alight. But whats the real purpose behind their visit?
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Master And Margarita
by Michael Glenny, Mikhail Bulgakov

ISBN 0679410465 (0-679-41046-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey's cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz's apartment. (A puzzled relative receives the following telegram: "Have just been run over by streetcar at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three afternoon come Berlioz.") Woland and his minions transport one bureaucrat to Yalta, make another one disappear entirely except for his suit, and frighten several others so badly that they end up in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, it seems half of Moscow shows up in the bin, demanding to be placed in a locked cell for protection.
Meanwhile, a few doors down in the hospital lives the true object of Woland's visit: the author of an unpublished novel about Pontius Pilate. This Master--as he calls himself--has been driven mad by rejection, broken not only by editors' harsh criticism of his novel but, Bulgakov suggests, by political persecution as well. Yet Pilate's story becomes a kind of parallel narrative, appearing in different forms throughout Bulgakov's novel: as a manuscript read by the Master's indefatigable love, Margarita, as a scene dreamed by the poet--and fellow lunatic--Ivan Homeless, and even as a story told by Woland himself. Since we see this narrative from so many different points of view, who is truly its author? Given that the Master's novel and this one end the same way, are they in fact the same book? These are only a few of the many questions Bulgakov provokes, in a novel that reads like a set of infinitely nested Russian dolls: inside one narrative there is another, and then another, and yet another. His devil is not only entertaining, he is necessary: "What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?"
Unsurprisingly--in view of its frequent, scarcely disguised references to interrogation and terror--Bulgakov's masterwork was not published until 1967, almost three decades after his death. Yet one wonders if the world was really ready for this book in the late 1930s, if, indeed, we are ready for it now. Shocking, touching, and scathingly funny, it is a novel like no other. Woland may reattach heads or produce 10-ruble notes from the air, but Bulgakov proves the true magician here. The Master and Margarita is a different book each time it is opened. --Mary Park [via]
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The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov

ISBN 0452008999 (0-452-00899-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey's cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz's apartment. (A puzzled relative receives the following telegram: "Have just been run over by streetcar at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three afternoon come Berlioz.") Woland and his minions transport one bureaucrat to Yalta, make another one disappear entirely except for his suit, and frighten several others so badly that they end up in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, it seems half of Moscow shows up in the bin, demanding to be placed in a locked cell for protection.
Meanwhile, a few doors down in the hospital lives the true object of Woland's visit: the author of an unpublished novel about Pontius Pilate. This Master--as he calls himself--has been driven mad by rejection, broken not only by editors' harsh criticism of his novel but, Bulgakov suggests, by political persecution as well. Yet Pilate's story becomes a kind of parallel narrative, appearing in different forms throughout Bulgakov's novel: as a manuscript read by the Master's indefatigable love, Margarita, as a scene dreamed by the poet--and fellow lunatic--Ivan Homeless, and even as a story told by Woland himself. Since we see this narrative from so many different points of view, who is truly its author? Given that the Master's novel and this one end the same way, are they in fact the same book? These are only a few of the many questions Bulgakov provokes, in a novel that reads like a set of infinitely nested Russian dolls: inside one narrative there is another, and then another, and yet another. His devil is not only entertaining, he is necessary: "What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?"
Unsurprisingly--in view of its frequent, scarcely disguised references to interrogation and terror--Bulgakov's masterwork was not published until 1967, almost three decades after his death. Yet one wonders if the world was really ready for this book in the late 1930s, if, indeed, we are ready for it now. Shocking, touching, and scathingly funny, it is a novel like no other. Woland may reattach heads or produce 10-ruble notes from the air, but Bulgakov proves the true magician here. The Master and Margarita is a different book each time it is opened. --Mary Park [via]
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Master I Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov

ISBN 0882333453 (0-88233-345-3)
Hardcover, Ardis

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Mbi (We)
by Yevgeny Zamyatin

ISBN 2877142671 (2-87714-267-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture
by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal

ISBN 080148331X (0-8014-8331-X)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr

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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

ISBN 0451527097 (0-451-52709-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Solzhenitsyn's first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-era Soviet Union. The simply told story of a typical, grueling day of the titular character's life in a labor camp in Siberia, is a modern classic of Russian literature and quickly cemented Solzhenitsyn's international reputation upon publication in 1962. It is painfully apparent that Solzhenitsyn himself spent time in the gulags--he was imprisoned for nearly a decade as punishment for making derogatory statements about Stalin in a letter to a friend. [via]
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
by H.T. Willetts, Alexander Solzhenitsyn

ISBN 0374529523 (0-374-52952-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian. [via]
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
by Ralph Parker, Alexander Solzhenitsyn

ISBN 0451523105 (0-451-52310-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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A graphic picture of life in a Stalinist work camp. [via]
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Critical Companion
by Alexis Klimoff

ISBN 0810112140 (0-8101-1214-0)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr

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Readings on One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Loreta Medina

ISBN 0737705639 (0-7377-0563-9)
Softcover, Greenhaven Pr

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Red Square
by Martin Cruz Smith

ISBN 1560548886 (1-56054-888-6)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr

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Red Star Vol. 1: The Battle of Kar Dathra's Gate
by Christian Gossett, Bradley Kayl

ISBN 1582401977 (1-58240-197-7)
Softcover, Archangel Studios, LLC

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The Soviet Union Today
by Markaret Sedeen

ISBN 0870448161 (0-87044-816-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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The Soviet Union Today
by National Geographic Society (U.S.), National Geographic Book Service

ISBN 087044817X (0-87044-817-X)
Hardcover, National Geographic Society

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We
by Yvegeny Zamyatin, Mirra Ginsburg

ISBN 0380633132 (0-380-63313-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Translated by Natasha Randall
Foreword by Bruce Sterling

Written in 1921, We is set in the One State, where all live for the collective good and individual freedom does not exist. The novel takes the form of the diary of mathematician D-503, who, to his shock, experiences the most disruptive emotion imaginable: love. At once satirical and soberingand now available in a powerful new translationWe is both a rediscovered classic and a work of tremendous relevance to our own times. [via]
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by Clarence Brown, Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin

ISBN 0140185852 (0-14-018585-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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We
by Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin, Gregory Ziboorg

ISBN 0525470395 (0-525-47039-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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First published in the West in 1924, We is an adventurous story of the future nameless "numbers," the two-tenths of the world's population that survived the Great Two Hundred Years War. Their food is derived from petroleum, and they believe that their totally restricted existence under the watchful eye of the Benefactor is the ideal. They do not mourn the passing of the creative human spirit; indeed, they are hardly aware it ever existed. More than half a century later, We remains a strange and telling tragicomedy of love and death. The author, an acknowledged satirist in his own right, set the stage for Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984.
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We
by Gregory Zilboorg, Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin

ISBN 0839823207 (0-8398-2320-7)
Hardcover, Gregg Press

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We
by Mirra Ginsburg, Eugene Zamiatin

ISBN 1560004770 (1-56000-477-0)
Hardcover, Transaction Publishers

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First published in the West in 1924, We is an adventurous story of the future nameless "numbers," the two-tenths of the world's population that survived the Great Two Hundred Years War. Their food is derived from petroleum, and they believe that their totally restricted existence under the watchful eye of the Benefactor is the ideal. They do not mourn the passing of the creative human spirit; indeed, they are hardly aware it ever existed. More than half a century later, We remains a strange and telling tragicomedy of love and death. The author, an acknowledged satirist in his own right, set the stage for Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984.
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Workplay: Playing to Learn and Learning to Play
by Carmine Consalvo

ISBN 0925652121 (0-925652-12-1)
Hardcover, Human Resource Development

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WorkPlay offers you some of the most enjoyable and educational games and exercises you'll find anywhere. More than "just another" collection of structured activities, this reproducible volume includes a provocative discussion of the serious impact of fun and games on the adult learner.
WorkPlay provides training in: Leadership, team building, change, problem solving, creativity, decision making, goal setting, trust, risk taking, and more!
WorkPlay is designed to provide program designers, workshop presenters, facilitators, and consultants with creative, structured learning experiences and detailed guidance on how to use them for effective training, conferences, and workshops. It is a practical handbook containing 27 varied and versatile activities that cover a comprehensive range of learning themes. Although these activities are particularly well-suited to team building, group problem solving, and leadership training, they can be used for communication, decision making, creativity, resource management, and a multitude of other learning purposes. Each activity can serve a range of training needs and agendas. Each activity has applicability to a variety of learning themes, some of which can be explored in depth using the activity alone or in conjunction with suggested companion exercises. They can be implemented either at different times for different purposes or used singularly to accomplish a variety of related learning objectives.
WorkPlay includes:
27 reproducible activities in a convenient 3-ring binder.
Exercises include icebreakers, energizers and closing activities, scenario-based activities, and general activities for multiple objectives.
Observer/judge sheets for participants to learn by observing
Guidelines for ensuring that physically challenged participants can safely and enjoyably take part in the activities
Requirements for set-up, time, group size, materials, constraints, and safety considerations.
Development
Experiential activities can transform learning into adventure for adults in conference, academic, and work training settings. Learning is an emotional, physical and cognitive experience. Movement and feelings affect learning. Play can engage the mind and body and provoke a positive, emotional response during exercises that are designed to enhance skills and elucidate concepts and theories. Almost any topic can be explored through gaming. Learning that involves skill building and behavioral change, such as group dynamics, communication, leadership, problem solving, teamwork, and decision making are particularly well-suited to gaming.
Playing games for the serious purpose of learning creates a paradoxical situation in which participants are simultaneously involved in serious play and playful seriousness. The object of gaming is knowledge, not fun. However, the process is enjoyable and thus conducive to learning. This type of play entails the lighthearted yet earnest pursuit of educational aims within a fun-and-games context. The paradoxical nature of gaming to learn allows players freedom to experiment with new approaches, change old approaches, and even fail with impunity. After all, learning is a risky business. Safety is ensured in the imaginative realm of play.
Conducting the Activities
Each activity provides all the information necessary to conduct the experience, including directions and other handouts that can be easily copied for the participants. Some of the games do not require these handouts for participants or may have handouts to be used by the facilitator as a guide. These handouts contain all the pertinent information necessary for the group considerations. They also ensure that the group cannot project responsibility for its performance on faulty facilitator instructions, insulating the facilitator from being unwittingly drawn into authority issues that properly belong in the group.
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