A Theatrical Novel
by Mikhail Bulgakov |
Generations of Winter
by Vassily Aksyonov | 
The Gift
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
The White Guard
by Mikhail Bulgakov |
Everything Flows
by Vasily Grossman | 
Pushkin House
by Andrei Bitov | 
Glory
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Mary
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Petersburg
by Andrei Bely |
Sofia Petrovna
by Lydia Chukovskaya |
The Funeral Party
by Ludmila Ulitskaya |
The Foundation Pit
by Andrey Platonov | 
A School for Fools
by Sasha Sokolov |
Moscow Circles
by Venedikt Erofeev | 
The First Circle
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 
Commune: Book One
by Joshua Gayou | 
Severance
by Ling Ma | 
Good Morning, Midnight
by Lily Brooks-Dalton | 
A Friend of the Earth
by T. Coraghessan Boyle | 
Concrete Island
by J. G. Ballard |
Written in 1979, Vassily Aksyonov's The Island of Crimea imagines an alternative history (abetted by alternative geography--Crimea is a peninsula) wherein the Russian civil war ends with the tsarist forces able to hold onto this southern scrap of the old empire. Skip forward sixty years, and Crimea is a booming Hong Kong to the U.S.S.R.'s China. To the contemporary Soviet reader, almost every word in that opening sentence invited giggles of dizzy disorientation.