Fly, wild swans
After the great success of Wild Swans in 1991, in which the author recounted the lives of three generations of women, beginning with her grandmother and...
Marxism
Christianity and Class War
Berdyaev was a Marxist and, when writing this work, retained some respect for his old teacher Marx: in fact, he dedicates it to him. Perhaps for that reason, he acknowledges the existence of class struggle...
The Foundation Pit
Platonov was one of the banned writers of the Soviet Union. He wrote The Foundation Pit, perhaps his best work, in 1932 and 1933, during Stalin's first Five-Year Plan, which imposed agricultural...
The russian album
In 1997, the famous Canadian historian compiled, from a photo album, the history of his aristocratic, landowning family in Tsarist Russia. His grandfather, Paul Ignatieff, was Minister of Education under...
Origin of Russian Communism
For Berdyaev, the problem with communism is that it seeks to become a new religion with unassailable dogmas—therefore implacable in its repression of "heresy"—and whose main article of faith would be Marx’s...
Gorbachev
Gorbachev continues, even after all these years, to attract interest. He was faced with difficult and uncertain times, with many open fronts that did not rule out a confrontation—even nuclear—between blocs...
Kilometer 101
A brilliant selection of short stories and essays by one of today's great Russian writers.
In the Soviet Union, the rights of those who had served sentences for political crimes were severely...
Live Not by Lies. A Manual for Christian Dissidents
In this book, Rod Dreher acts as a loudspeaker for Eastern European dissidents, who warn us of the not-so-distant danger that the West is heading towards a "soft totalitarianism", based more on...
To the Finland Station. A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
Edmund Wilson published the history of revolutionary Marxism in 1940, just at the beginning of World War II, when the only reference of the new social experiment was the Soviet Union. Later, in 1971, he...
We the Living
Ayn Rand (Russia, 1905 - USA, 1982), known for her atheism and liberalism, which led her to formulate a radical critique of Soviet reality. As she herself states, it is a novel about man against the State,...