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    Posted: 25-Oct-2006 at 04:02
Some Russian fiction books of the USSR period will be posted on the site http://sovlit2.narod.ru . You are welcome to read and discuss them.
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Thanks for posting that, however it links to website exclusively in Rusian and Cyrilic. Not to helpful for all of us not in command of either. Any English translation?
Anyway, I hope it includes Michail Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita", a hilarious novel about the Devil on the loose in Stalin's Moscow, one of my all-time favourite books.
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Personally I love Ilf and Petrov's two novels about Ostap Bender - The Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf, set at the time of the New Economic Program. They're both easily available in translation though - and Mel Brooks made a film of one of them.
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 and Don'T you guys think that the Russian literature of the USSR period is ideologically-driven to a large extend? 
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I have always been amazed by Russian literature in general. The fact that such a society, so heavily laden with censorship and surveillance, has been able to produce such inspired literary figures is just amazing.
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Originally posted by TheDiplomat

 and Don'T you guys think that the Russian literature of the USSR period is ideologically-driven to a large extend? 
 
Depends what you class as 'literature' I guess.
 
The interesting thing, as Constantine points out, is that so much of it wasn't.
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...or simply the propagandistic literature is simply pushed aside and the gems are picked out, atleast in the West it has always been so since Pushkin and Gogol i suppose.
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A&B Strugatzky - "Stalker"  - both the novel and the movie (directed by Tarkovsky) on top of my list.
A. Tolstoi - "Aelita", "Garin's Hyperboloid" though somehow ideologycally biased are fine works
A.E. Beleaev - the Soviet A.E. van Vogt (better style anyway)
M. Bulgakov - excellent!
It seems that the great classics had (have?) quite fine followers.
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What about Boris L. Pasternak and Aleksandr I. Solzhenitzyn.They were too a great writers and even Nobel Prize winners.
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We had a lot of discussion regarding Mayakovski poetry. From the first sight it looks like very political and Soviet. But my opinion is that more detailed reading of it reveals deeply hidden irony. Nobody believes me.



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Originally posted by Komnenos

Anyway, I hope it includes Michail Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita", a hilarious novel about the Devil on the loose in Stalin's Moscow, one of my all-time favourite books.
I know that some Russian authors of the soviet period are well-known in western countries (Michail Bulgakov is one of them). Mostly because they emigrated or was in opposition to the regime. However, in order to make true impression of the epoch one should have wider coverage. So, I see my mission in posting books which are rare and authors are otherwise not known at all.
 
Originally posted by Komnenos

Any English translation?
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But I have no experience of translating fiction books. I can try to translate those things posted in http://sovlit2.narod.ru but only if somebody of native English speakers with the sense of fiction writing will help me in choosing a true wording.
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Originally posted by Anton

We had a lot of discussion regarding Mayakovski poetry. From the first sight it looks like very political and Soviet. But my opinion is that more detailed reading of it reveals deeply hidden irony. Nobody believes me.

There can be no doubt that Mayakovsky for most of his life was a keen socialist and Bolshevik. That's apparent in his life in general, not just in his poetry.
 
On the other hand his genius as a poet puts him outside politics. What happened to him in the last couple of years before his suicide is unclear: he was obviously disillusioned, presumably with Stalin's regime. And The Bedbug (Klop) is definitely ironic. But I doubt that he lost his underlying belief that the future lay with communism.
 
In his last poem, in his suicide note, he wrote "The love boat has crashed against the daily routine. You and I, we are quits, and there is no point in listing mutual pains, sorrows, and hurts."
 
I guess most probably he was referring to something to do with his discovery of his illegitimate daughter by the American Elli Jones, but it could be a metaphor for his relationship with the Stalinist regime.
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Originally posted by Ruslan_Sharipov

But I have no experience of translating fiction books. I can try to translate those things posted in http://sovlit2.narod.ru but only if somebody of native English speakers with the sense of fiction writing will help me in choosing a true wording.
I'd be willing to try, though there could be a problem with time available. My Russian is pretty rusty but it used to be fluent.
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Originally posted by gcle2003

I'd be willing to try, though there could be a problem with time available. My Russian is pretty rusty but it used to be fluent.
I have added some parts in English to http://sovlit2.narod.ru, please, look and say if my English is OK.
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All of the 6 part of the novell "Invicible Sandjar"by M. Sheverdin (in Russian) are now available on the site http://sovlit2.narod.ru. I am looking for volunteers who will help me to translate them into English. Native English speakers are needed.
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I have added some parts in English to http://sovlit2.narod.ru, please, look and say if my English is OK.[/QUOTE]

I looked through and for someone who isn't a native english speaker its written understandably, you easily get the majority of what your trying to say and the expressions.
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A new author is added to the site http://sovlit2.narod.ru. That is G. I. Tsodikova with her novel "The frontier guard Anton and his little friends".
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