URSS, and the truth about lies...

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1.  We by Zamyatin Yeugeny
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  "(1920) Zamyatin (1884-1937)/Sometimes literature can tell us a lot about reality. I´ll include in this list some books that are useful to know more about URSS´ history,specially the 1920-60`s period."
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Heart of a Dog
2.  Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
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  "(1925) Bulgakov // If you read with attention these books you´ll discover "the truth about lies",that is the truth that can be found in fiction despite censorship even in totalitarian regimes."
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Brave New World
3.  Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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  "(1932) 'Brave New World' // I`ll include in this list Soviet writers, but also foreigners who somehow managed to realize that the Soviet Revolution wasn`t really what it had promised to be."
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Darkness at Noon
4.  Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
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  "(1940) Arthur Koestler // Here are only some of the books I consider interesting regarding the subject, but there are many more out there waiting for you to find them !!!."
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White Guard
5.  White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
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  "Published only in 1967,"The white Guard" was written a long time before,but suffered censorship for not being "politically correct" (it tells the story of a middle-class family affected by war)."
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
6.  Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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  "(1948) The kind of distressing book we all need to read... "1984" and "Animal Farm" were written by British author Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), whose pseudonym was George Orwell."
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Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
7.  Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
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  "(1945)"
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics)
8.  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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  "Solzhenitsyn was sent to a Soviet Labour Camp for criticizing Stalin. He used his prison experiences as background for this novel, but couldn`t publish it until 1962 due to censorship."
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First Circle
9.  First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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  "(1968)"
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Perennial Classics)
10.  The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Perennial Classics) by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
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  ""Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states,nor between classes,nor between political parties either,but right through every human heart(..)""
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Doctor Zhivago
11.  Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
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  "Dr. Zhivago (1957-58)"
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The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
12.  The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
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  "Anna Akmátova (1889-1966)"
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The Word That Causes Death's Defeat: Poems of Memory (Annals of Communism)
13.  The Word That Causes Death's Defeat: Poems of Memory (Annals of Communism) by Anna Akhmatova
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  "Translations of some of Akhmatova’s most interesting poems. Example: "Requiem", a poem wrote as a commemoration of the victims of Stalin’s Terror..."
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The Complete Works of Isaac Babel
14.  The Complete Works of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel
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  "Isaac Babel (1894 - 1939)"
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Collected Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
15.  Collected Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by I. Babel
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  "Babel started to criticize more often the governmen of Stalin, and thus suffered more the pressure of censorship. He said that "I have invented a new genre - the genre of silence"."
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Listen!: Early Poems Pocket Poet Series No 47 (Pocket Poets Series)
16.  Listen!: Early Poems Pocket Poet Series No 47 (Pocket Poets Series) by Vladimir Mayakovsky
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  "Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893 - 1930) supported the October Revolution enthusiastically, and showed that in poems like Ode to Revolution (1918) and Left March (1919)."
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The Fur Hat
17.  The Fur Hat by Vladimir Voinovich
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  "This is "a satirical allegory of how writers in the USSR were treated under the leadership of the Writer's Union"."
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The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (European Classics)
18.  The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (European Classics) by Vladimir Voinovich
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  "This book "satirizes all of Soviet society with an emphasis on the incompetence of leadership and the government system"."
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The Art and Craft of Writing
19.  The Art and Craft of Writing by Vladimir Mayakovsky
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  "In this book some famous Soviet writers reflect on the art of writing, and also on other things, for example how they reacted when a decree said that their writing was the property of the State..."
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The Captive Mind (Penguin Modern Classics)
20.  The Captive Mind (Penguin Modern Classics) by Czeslaw Milosz
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  "(1951)"
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The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
21.  The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century by Francois Furet
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