University of Illinois
History 481
Problems in Russian History
Fall 2002
Selected Bibliography of Novels, Memoirs, and Reportage
1. Novels
a. Revolution and Civil War
Babel, Isaac, Red Cavalry, 1929 (1926).
Bulgakov, Mikhail, The White Guard, 1971.
Fadeev, Aleksandr, The Nineteen. 1927.
Furmanov, Dmitri. Chapaev. 1922.
Gladkov, F.V., Cement, 1969 (1925).
Iskander, Fazil, Sandro of Chegem, 1983.
Libedinsky, Iuri. A Week. 1923.
Pasternak, Boris, Doctor Zhivago, 1958.
Pilnyak, Boris, The Naked Year, 1928.
Serafimovich, A. S. The Iron Flood. 1924.
Sholokhov, Mikhail, And Quiet Flows the Don, 1928.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, August 1914, 1988.
b. NEP and Stalin to 1939
Bogdanov, Alexander, Red Star, 1988.
Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich, How It All Began, 1998.
Bulgakov, Mikhail, The Master and Margarita, 1967.
Chukovskaya, Lidiia, The Deserted House [Sophia Petrovna], 1967.
Dombrovsky, Yury, The Faculty of Useless Knowledge. 1997 (1978).
Ehrenburg, Ilya, A Street in Moscow, 1977 (1932).
Ilf, Ilya, and Evgenii Petrov, The Twelve Chairs, 1997 (1928)
Kataev, Valentin, Time, Forward! 1976 (1933).
Koestler, Arthur, Darkness at Noon, 1941.
Leonov, L., Soviet River, 1932.
Makarenko, A.S., The Road to Life, 1951.
Olesha, Yuri, Envy, 1981. (1927).
Page, Myra, Moscow Yankee, 1995 (1935).
Platonov, Andrei, The Foundation Pit, 1971.
Platonov, Andrei. Happy Moscow.
Rozanov, M.G. (N. Ognyev), Diary of a Communist Schoolboy, 1928.
Rybakov, Anatoli, Children of the Arbat, 1988.
Rybakov, Anatoli, Fear, 1992.
Shalamov, Varlam, Kolyma Tales, 1982.
Sholokhov, Mikhail, Virgin Soil Upturned, 1931.
Tarasov-Rodionov, Alexander, Chocolate, 1922.
Zamiatin, Evgenii, We , 1924.
c. Great Patriotic War
Abramov, Fedor, Two Winters and Three Summers, 1984.
Fadeyev, A., The Young Guard, 1951.
Grossman, Vasilii, Forever Flowing, 1972.
Grossman, Vasilii, Life and Fate, 1985.
Kuznetsov, Anatoli, Babi Yar, 1967.
Nekrasov, Viktor, Front-Line Stalingrad, 1964.
Rybakov, Anatoli, Heavy Sand, 1982.
Voinovich, Vladimir, The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, 1971.
d. Post-War (Gosizdat, Tamizdat, Samizdat)
Aitmatov, Chingiz, and Kaltai Mukhamedzhanov, The Ascent of Mount Fuji, 1975.
Aksenov, Vasilii, The Burn, 1984.
Aksenov, Vasilii, The Island of Crimea, 1983.
Baranskaia, Natalia, A Week Like Any Other, 1969.
Bitov, Andrei, Pushkin House, 1987.
Dudintsev, Vladimir, Not By Bread Alone, 1957.
Ehrenburg, Ilya, The Thaw, 1955.
Erofeev, Venedikt, Moscow to the End of the Line (Moscow Circles), 1969.
Erofeev, Victor, Russian Beauty, 1993.
Kurkov, Andrey, Death and the Penguin, 2001 (1996).
Nekrasov, Viktor, Kira Georgievna, 1962.
Pelevin, Victor. Buddha’s Little Finger.
Pelevin, Victor. Homo Zapiens. 2001.
Pelevin, Victor, The Life of Insects, 1998.
Pelevin, Victor. Omon Ra.
Rasputin, Valentin, Farewell to Matyora, 1979.
Rasputin, Valentin, Siberia, Siberia, 1996.
Soloukhin, Vladimir, A Walk in Rural Russia. 1966 (1957).
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, Cancer Ward, 1969.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, The First Circle, 1969.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 1963.
Tolstaia, Tatiana, Sleepwalker in a Fog, 1992.
Trifonov, Yuri, The House on the Embankment, 1978.
Vladimov, Georgii, Faithful Ruslan, 1975.
Voinovich, Vladimir, The Ivankiad, 1977.
2. Memoirs, Diaries, and Reportage
(Periodization reflects the period primarily covered in the memoir or book)
a. Revolution and Civil War
Babel, Isaac, 1920 Diary, 1995.
Babine, Alexis, A Russian Civil War Diary: Alexis Babine in Saratov, 1917-1922, 1988.
Chernov, Victor, The Great Russian Revolution, 1966 (1936).
Denikin, A.I., The Russian Turmoil, 1922.
Dotsenko, Paul, The Struggle for Democracy in Siberia, 1917-1920: Eyewittness Account of a Contemporary, 1983.
Dune, Eduard, Notes of a Red Guard, 1993.
Ehrenburg, Ilya, People and Life, 1891-1921, 1962.
Francis, David, Russia from the American Embassy, April 1916-November 1918, 1921.
Golder, Frank, War, Revolution, and Peace in Russia: The Passages of Frank Golder, 1992.
Golder, Frank Alfred, and Lincoln Hutchinson, On the Trail of the Russian Famine, 1927.
Goldman, Emma, My Disillusionment in Russia, 1970.
Got'e, Iurii Vladimirovich, The Time of Troubles: Diary of Iu. V. Got'e, 1987.
Harrison, Marguerite, Marooned in Moscow, 1921.
Kerensky, Alexander, The Catastrophe, 1927.
Kerensky, Alexander, Russia and History's Turning Point, 1965.
Krupskaya, N.K., Reminiscences of Lenin, 1970.
Lukomskii, Aleksandr S., Memoirs of the Russian Revolution, 1922 [1975].
Miliukov, Paul, Political Memoirs, 1905-1917, 1967.
Mstislavskii, Sergei, Five Days Which Transformed Russia, 1988.
Nabokov, V.D., V.D. Nabokov and the Russian Provisional Government, 1976.
Paley, Princess, Seeing Russia, 1916-1919, n.d.
Pascal, Pierre, Mon Journal de Rossie, 1975.
Price, Morgan Phillips, My Reminiscences of the Russian Revolution, 1921.
Ransome, Arthur, The Crisis in Russia, 1921.
Reed, John, Ten Days That Shook the World, 1960.
Shklovsky, Victor, A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917-1922, 1970.
Shliapnikov, Alexander, On the Eve of 1917, 1982.
Sukhanov, N.N., The Russian Revolution, 1917, 1984.
Tsereteli, I.G., "Reminiscences of the February Revolution, " Russian Review, 14 (1955): 93-108, 184-200; 15 (1956): 37-48.
Tyrkova-Williams, Adriana, From Liberty to Brest-Litovsk: The First Year of the Russian Revolution, 1919.
Williams, Albert Rhys, Through the Russian Revolution, 1923.
b. NEP and Stalinism to 1953
Allilueva, Svetlana, Twenty Letters to a Friend, 1967.
Andreev-Khomiakov, Gennady, Bitter Waters: Life and Work in Stalin's Russia, 1997.
Baital'skii, M., Notebooks for the Grandchildren, 1995.
Balabanoff, Angelica, My Life as A Rebel, 1973 (1938).
Barmine, Alexandre, One Who Survived, 1945.
Berberova, Nina, The Italics Are Mine, 1969.
Berezhkov, Valentin M., At Stalin's Side: His Interpreter's Memoirs from the October Revolution to the Fall of the Dictator's Empire, 1994.
Berezhkov, V. M., History in the Making: Memoirs of World War II Diplomacy, 1983.
Bonner, Elena, Mothers and Daughters, 1992.
Borders, Karl, Village Life under the Soviets, 1927.
Borodin, N. M. One Man and His Time. 1955.
Burrell, George A., An American Engineer Looks at Russia, 1932.
Davies, Joseph, Mission to Moscow, 1941.
Djilas, Milovan, Conversations with Stalin, 1962.
Dreiser, Theodore, Dreiser Looks at Russia, 1927.
Duranty, Walter, I Write As I Please, 1935.
Ehrenburg, Ilya, Memoirs 1921-1941, 1966.
Fischer, Louis, Soviet Journey, 1935 (1970).
Fischer, Markoosha, My Lives in Russia, 1944.
Ginzburg, Eugenia, Journey into the Whirlwind, 1967.
Ginzburg, Eugeniia, Within the Whirlwind, 1981.
Gorbatov, A.V., Years Off My Life: The Memoirs of a General of the Soviet Army, 1964.
Hammer, Armand, The Quest of the Romanoff Treasure, 1932.
Hindus, Maurice, Broken Earth, 1929.
Hindus, Maurice, Humanity Uprooted, 1931 (1929).
Hindus, Maurice, Red Bread, 1931.
Huxley, Julian, A Scientist Among the Soviets, 1932.
Ivanov-Razumnik, R.V., Memoirs, 1965 (1953).
Keynes, John Maynard, A Short View of Russia, 1925.
Kopelev, Lev, To Be Preserved Forever, 1977.
Korber, Lili, Life in Soviet Factory, 1933.
Kravchenko, Viktor, I Chose Freedom, 1946.
Larina, Anna, This I Cannot Forget, 1993.
Lewenstein (Johnston), Henry-Ralph, Die Karl-Liebknecht-Schule in Moskau 1932-1937: Erinnerungen eines Schulers, 1991.
Liberman, Simon I., Building Lenin's Russia, 1945.
Lynch, Anne Borders, comp., Two Years in Russia: 1925-1927, 1999 (includes Karl Borders, Village Life under the Soviets).
Lyons, Eugene, Assignment in Utopia, 1937.
Lyons, Eugene, Moscow Carrousel, 1935.
Mandelshtam, Nadezhda, Hope Against Hope, 1970.
Mandelshtam, Nadezhda, Hope Abandoned, 1974.
Orlov, Alexander, The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes, 1953.
Pavlov, Dmitri V., Leningrad 1941: The Blockade, 1965.
Petrov, Vladimir, Escape from the Future, 1973 (1952).
Reswick, William, I Dreamt Revolution, 1952.
Rukeyser, Walter Arnold, Working for the Soviets: An American Engineer in Russia, 1932.
Scheffer, Paul, Seven Years in Soviet Russia, 1931.
Scott, John, Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel, 1942.
Serge, Victor, Memoirs of a Revolutionary, 1901-1941, 1963.
Serge, Viktor, Russia Twenty Years After, 1996.
Shostokovich, Dmitri, and Solomon Volkov, Testimony, 1979.
Smith, Andrew, I Was a Soviet Worker, 1937.
Tchernavin, Vladimir V., I Speak for the Silent Prisoners of the Soviets, 1935.
Trotsky, Leon, My Life, 1970.
Winter, Ella, Red Virtue: Human Relationships in the New Russia, 1933.
Yakir, Pyotr, A Childhood in Prison, 1972.
c. Post-Stalin
Alexeyeva, Ludmilla, and Paul Goldberg, The Thaw Generation: Coming of Age in the Post-Stalin Era, 1990.
Amalrik, Andrei, Involuntary Journey to Siberia, 1970.
Amalrik, Andrei, Notes of a Revolutionary, 1982.
Bonner, Elena, Alone Together, 1986.
Bukovsky, Vladimir, To Build A Castle, 1979.
Dobrynin, Anatoly, In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents, 1995.
Gorbachev, Mikhail, Memoirs, 1995.
Gorbanevskaya, Natalya, Red Square at Noon, 1972.
Gromyko, A.A., Memoirs, 1989.
Kaminskaya, Dina, Final Judgment: My Life as a Soviet Defense Attorney, 1982.
Kanga, Elena, Khrushchev, N.S., Khrushchev Remembers, 1970.
Khrushchev, N.S., Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament, 1976.
Khrushchev, N.S., Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes, 1990.
Khrushchev, Sergei, Khrushchev on Khrushchev, 1990.
Ligachev, Egor, Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin, 1993.
Orlov, Yuri, Dangerous Thoughts, 1991.
Pankin, Boris, The Last Hundred Days of the Soviet Union, 1996.
Ratushinskaia, Irina, Grey Is the Color of Hope, 1988.
Rosenberg, Suzanne, A Soviet Odyssey, 1988.
Sakharov, Andrei, Memoirs, 1990.
Sinyavsky, Andrei, A Voice from the Chorus, 1976.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, The Oak and the Calf, 1979.
Taubman, William and Jane, Moscow Spring, 1989.
Tsukerman, Veniamin, and Zinaida Azarkh, Arzamas-16: Soviet Scientists in the Nuclear Age: A Memoir, 1999.
Vidali, Vittorio, Diary of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1984.
Yeltsin, Boris, The Struggle for Russia, 1995.
Zyuganov, Gennady, My Russia: The Political Autobiography of Gennady Zyuganov, 1997