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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The turning	Gloria Whelan	In the months leading up to the August 1991 coup attempt that resulted in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a young dancer with the Kirov Ballet struggles to decide whether to defect whi…	OL14866607W
The last adversary	Tom Rob Smith	"Former secret police agent Leo Demidov is thrown into a foreign conflict and is forced to question and confront everything he ever thought he knew about his country, his family, and himself"--Provid…	OL15414699W
The ninth wave	Ilʹi͡a Ėrenburg	895 p. 22 cm	OL1579679W
Pavlova's gift	Maxine Trottier	Summoned by the Czar to perform for his ailing son, Anna Pavlova, formerly the greatest ballerina in Russia, finds a special, mystical way to share her gift of dance.	OL15972166W
The little Russian	Susan Sherman	"The Little Russian spotlights an exciting new voice in historical fiction, an assured debut that should appeal to readers of Away by Amy Bloom or Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. The novel tells th…	OL16176175W
Cold blood	Fleming, James	The Russian Revolution is breaking out around him, but Charlie Doig has a private war to fight. He is determined to track down and kill Prokhor Glebov, the Bolshevik who raped and tortured his wife, …	OL17926790W
Heads You Win	Jeffrey Archer	Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mot…	OL19761902W
Mikhail and Margarita	Julie Lekstrom Himes	It is 1933 and Mikhail Bulgakov's enviable career is on the brink of being dismantled. His friend and mentor, the poet Osip Mandelstam, has been arrested, tortured, and sent into exile. Meanwhile, a …	OL20051044W
Trans-Siberian Express	Warren Adler	Famous American cancer specialist Dr. Alex Cousins is sent by the President of the United States to Russia to prolong the life of the Secretary General of the Politburo. While in Russia, Cousins lear…	OL2046812W
The secret speech	Tom Rob Smith	Soviet Union, 1956: Stalin is dead. With his passing, a violent regime isbeginning to fracture - leaving behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. The catal…	OL20833650W
Under a blood red sky	Kate Furnivall	"Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia, 1933: Sofia Morozova knows she has to escape. Only two things have sustained her through the bitter cold, aching hunger and hard labour: the prospect of one day walkin…	OL21182364W
Sasha and the Wolfcub	Ann Jungman,Gaia Bordiccia	Sasha takes his father's sleigh and drives it outside the confines of his Russian village, despite his mother's warnings about wolves. When he gets lost, Sasha comes across a little wolfcub, itself l…	OL21352124W
The charm school	Nelson De Mille	Something very strange -- and sinister -- is going on in the Russian woods at Borodino. In a place called Mrs. Ivanova's Charm School, young KGB agents are being taught by American POW's how to be mo…	OL22905W
Judgment	David Bergelson,Harriet Murav,Sasha Senderovich	xxxvii, 222 pages ; 21 cm	OL25707116W
Раковый корпус	Александр Исаевич Солженицын	'There has been no such analysis of the corrupting power of the police state in Soviet literature'--Stuart Hood in the Listener Solzhenitsyn, like Oleg Kostoglotov, the central character of this…	OL258366W
Собачье сердце	Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков	A superb comic masterpiece and fierce parable of the Russian Revolution by the author of The Master and Margarita. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOVA rich, successful Moscow professor befriend…	OL260422W
The people's act of love	James Meek	Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005. 1919, Siberia. Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of the Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian…	OL3171355W
The dream life of Sukhanov	Olga Grushin	Olga Grushin's astonishing literary debut has won her comparisons with everyone from Gogol to Nabokov. A virtuoso study in betrayal and its consequences, it explores—really, colonizes—the consciousne…	OL5844854W
The half-hearted	John Buchan	In the closing years of the 19th century, Lewis Haystoun, a dilettante and coward, falls for Alice Wishart, a guest at a Scottish country house party hosted by Lady Manorwater. Ill at ease in his own…	OL76593W
And Quiet Flows the Don	Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov	One of a continuing series of books about characters in a peasant village and their involvement in the brewing revolution and civil war. Best to read them in order. The author should have been aw…	OL8067216W