 | The Idiot (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $10.16 / Used from: $1.03 Classic storyline with not so classic characters. Stellar example of the Russian experience.
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 | From Karamzin to Bunin: An Anthology of Russian Short Stories
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $0.67 Definitely worth a scan. There are some surprising juicy bits to be found.
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 | A History of Russia by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
Buy used from: $20.00 Probably the best comprehensive Russian text out there. Detailed and thought-provoking.
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 | The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $4.53 My professor has yet to stop gushing about this one. The analysis of Stalin is nothing if not inspired.
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 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Everyman's Library) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $3.72 Don't be decieved by it's dry appearance. Solzhenitsyn's descriptions hit pretty hard.
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 | Notes from the Underground (Dover Thrift Editions) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $0.01 Short, but alarming.
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 | The Twelve Chairs (European Classics) by Ilya Ilf
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $10.24 La creme de la creme. Ten readings aren't enough.
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 | The Man with the Black Coat: Russia's Literature of the Absurd (European Classics) by Daniil Kharms
Buy new: $18.81 / Used from: $13.00 Completely hilarious. Necessary to spruce up any collection!
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 | The Life of Insects: A Novel by Victor Pelevin
Buy used from: $8.99 Hilarious satire of ingenius proportions or scathing, depressing tale of Russian drudgery? Either way, it's taking up a prime spot on my book shelf
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 | A Hero of Our Time (Everyman's Library) by Mikhail Lermontov
Buy new: $13.50 / Used from: $4.99 Not necessarily essential, but lovely and romantic all the same. An early precursor to Dostoyevsky.
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