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Russian History through Novels

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1mcenroeucsb
Jun 23, 2012, 12:57 pm

Suggestions welcome.

1. Several centuries: Russka by Edward Rutherfurd
2. 1800s: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
3. 1810s: Anna by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
4. 1850s: Flashman at the Charge by George MacDonald Fraser
5. 1860s: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. 1870s: The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin
7. 1890s: The True Memoirs of Little K by Adrienne Sharp
8. 1910s: The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
9. 1910s: Sashenka by Simon Sebag Montefiore
10. 1910s: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
11. 1910s: Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
12. 1930s: Children of the Arbat by Anatoli Rybakov
13. 1940s: The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
14. 1940s: Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
15. 1940s: The Siege by Helen Dunmore
16. 1940s: City of Thieves by David Benioff
17. 1950s: Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
18. 1950s: The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
19. 1950s: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
20. 1970s: Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
21. 1990s: The Turning by Gloria Whelan (YA)

2bostonbibliophile
Jun 23, 2012, 2:11 pm

1960s-1990s- Monumental Propaganda by Vladimir Voinovich