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Anonymous Sat Feb 2 08:10:05 2019 No.12522279 [Reply] [Original]

What are some good books about the horrors of the soviet era? besides Solzhenitsyn's

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 2 08:19:02 2019 No.12522301 Czeslaw Milosz "The Captive Mind"

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 2 08:23:36 2019 No.12522316 >>12522279 Tomorrow was the War but it's preferable to watch the movie it's just plain better.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 2 10:39:16 2019 No.12522869 >>12522279 Shalamov

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 2 10:42:52 2019 No.12522896 >>12522279 Probly evgenia guinzburg too

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 2 11:38:45 2019 No.12523185 anything by chomsky

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 2 11:39:23 2019 No.12523191 >>12522279 Darkness at Noon

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 2 11:41:26 2019 No.12523204 >>12522279 Vaclav Havel writings, Power of Powerless essay is particularly succinct http://chnm.gmu.edu/1989/items/show/700

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 2 11:48:42 2019 No.12523247 >reading fiction

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 2 12:12:56 2019 No.12523385 File: 23 KB, 400x400, dwagNqwq_400x400.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12523247 >reading nonfiction

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 2 12:17:56 2019 No.12523421 >>12522279 Everything flows by Vasily Grossman

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 2 12:19:55 2019 No.12523432 File: 603 KB, 940x1426, 1emeussbvwGpR1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12522279 Is there anything written with asexuals in mind?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 2 12:34:21 2019 No.12523548 >>12522279 >Soviet >Horror Nice try nazi

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 2 12:39:00 2019 No.12523585 >>12523247 hi mr KGB agent

Anonymous Sat Feb 2 12:44:24 2019 No.12523611

>>12523421
this and Life and Fate. If you want a metaphorical take on the Soviet project and its disastrous result then Pelevin's Foundation Pit is a good pick. His earlier work Chevengur is also metaphorical but based in the civil war period, with an emphasis on the lawless violence of the era. If you want nonfiction then you can look at a bunch of different surveys of Soviet history, and there is more focused literature on the Gulag and Stalinism if that's what you're interested in. I can post recs for those if you want but I'll have to refer to a list because I can't remember all the names off the top of my head.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 2 12:45:26 2019 No.12523615 >>12523611 I meant Platonov not Pelevin whoops

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 2 12:49:10 2019 No.12523641 So how many books ITT aren’t fiction? I imagine very few

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 2 12:49:48 2019 No.12523646 Testimony: The memoirs of Dimitri Shostakovich Anna Ahmatova: Requiem

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 2 13:21:22 2019 No.12523840 >>12523641 >So how many books ITT aren’t fiction? After a quick glance: >>12522301 >>12522869 >>12522896 >>12523204

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