(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.

(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.

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).

(1945)

(1968)

Dr. Zhivago (1957-58)

Translations of some of Akhmatovas most interesting poems. Example: "Requiem", a poem wrote as a commemoration of the victims of Stalins Terror...

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".

This is "a satirical allegory of how writers in the USSR were treated under the leadership of the Writer's Union".

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...