Russian literature
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Book in the spotlight: Stalin’s Scribe by Brian J. Boeck Of the five 20th-century Russian writers awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mikhail Sholokhov was the most controversial choice. This is for two reasons. First, Sholokhov’s claim to fame depended entirely on his epic And Quiet Flows the Don, and he would have never been
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Book in the spotlight: Notes of a Dead Man by Mikhail Bulgakov In March of 1936, the hilariously named Soviet newspaper Pravda (Russian for “truth”) published a scathing review of Mikhail Bulgakov’s play Molière. The review attacked the work for its supposedly flawed historicism and called into question its ideological soundness. Today the hit piece
The Writings of Scriptor Adorans 