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What are some nice SOVIET UNION books?
Note, I want books written in and published in the USSR, not the Russian Empire that predated it.
The Soviet Empire/Warsaw Pact are also acceptable, as they fit the time frame, culture and population mood.
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>>9281205
And Quiet Flows The Don
Cancer Ward (I think it was published eventually, but I could be wrong)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (ditto)
Life and Fate (ditto again)
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& the sequel
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Life and Fate is the greatest Russian novel of the 20th century.
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Envy by Olesha
The Queue by Sorokin
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Laszlo Krasznahorkai, probably the greatest writer of the 20th century period.
Satantango and Melancholy of Resistance were both written under the Soviet Union. Both are immensely better than Master & Margarita and Doctor Zhivago.
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Isaac Babel - Red Cavalry
short stories about the conflict with Poland during the Civil War
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>>9281602
should also throw in Kolyma Tales
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I notice most of these great USSR works critique USSR.
How come the party didn't censor them?
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>>9281653
The communists welcomed criticism because it helped them improve their system.
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>>9281653
..they did?
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>>9281659
Good post, comrade. Say, could you come give the other great novelist a hand in cutting down and moving that forest in Chukotka? For the greater good, of course. No need to pack money, we will be providing a hovel and bread, and we will manage your Moscow property while you are busy for a decade.
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>>9281653
They did. Life and Fate only managed to be published because it was smuggled out of the USSR. The original manuscripts and the typewriters Grossman wrote the book with were confiscated and he was told the book would never be published in the Soviet Union.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Boris Pasternak both won the Nobel Prize but were forced to reject it.
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>>9281700
Actually the "never published" part isn't true, all of those were going to be published in 200 years.
The government assumed ownership of them and scheduled their release dates 200 years in the future, when they would be accepted as social commentary, not as calls for change.
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>>9281706
>Actually the "never published" part isn't true, all of those were going to be published in 200 years.
lol
muh thousand year Soviet Reich
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