50 best works by the best writers of the twentieth century

Given by Zavtra

40 Works 59,992 Books 1,143 Reviews 4.0
Year Awarded:
2008
Work
Прокляты и убиты (2009) by Виктор Астафьев
Избранное Рассказы. Северный дневник by Юрий Павлович Казаков
Do tret'ikh petukhov (1998) by Василий Макарович Шукшин
Князь мира сего by Григорий Петрович Климов
Petersburg (1922) by Andrei Bely
Pushkin House (1978) by Andrei Bitov
The Moment of Truth : A Novel and Two Stories (1976) by Vladimir Bogomolov
The Hot Snow (1972) by Jurij Bondariew
The Master and Margarita (1966) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Dark Avenues (1943) by Ivan Bunin
The Cherry Orchard (1904) by Anton Chekhov
Moscow to the End of the Line (1969) by Venedikt Erofeev
The Rout (1927) by Alexander Fadejew
An Evening With Claire (1988) by Gaito Gazdanov
Life of Klim Samgin (1927) by Maxim Gorki
Running on Waves (1972) by Alexander Grin
The Twelve Chairs (1928) by Ilya Ilf
Two Captains (1956) by Veniamin Kaverin
Notre père la forêt (1989) by Anatoli Kim
The Duel (1905) by Alexander Kuprin
The Thief (1927) by Leonid Leonov
Underground, of Een held van onze tijd (1998) by Vladimir Makanin
Shatuny: Roman[The Sky above hell: Novel] (1992) by Iurii Mamleev
The Seven Days of Creation (1971) by Vladimir Maksimov
The Gift (1936) by Vladimir Nabokov
Front-Line Stalingrad (1946) by Victor Nekrasov
How the Steel Was Tempered (1973) by Nikolai Ostrovsky
Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak
Chevengur (1929) by Andrey Platonov
Farewell to Matyora (1976) by Valentin Rasputin
L'apocalisse del nostro tempo (2000) by Vasilij Rozanov
Kolyma Tales (0) by Varlam Shalamov
And Quiet Flows the Don (1928) by Mikhail Sholokhov
A School for Fools (New York Review Books Classics) (1976) by Sasha Sokolov
The Petty Demon (1905) by Fyodor Sologub
Matryona's House and Other Stories (1963) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Peter the First (1934) by Aleksej Nikolaevic Tolstoj
Vassili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier (2004) by Alexander Tvardovsky
Duck Hunting (1980) by Aleksandr Vampilov
We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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