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The largest, most comprehensive anthology of its kind, this volume brings together significant, representative stories from every decade of the twentieth century. It includes the prose of officially recognized writers and dissidents, both well-known and neglected or forgotten, plus new authors from the end of the century. The selections reflect the various literary trends and approaches to depicting reality in this era: traditional realism, modernism, socialist realism, and post-modernism. Taken as a whole, the stories capture every major aspect of Russian life, history and culture in the twentieth century. The rich array of themes and styles will be of tremendous interest to students and readers who want to learn about Russia through the engaging genre of the short story.

Short stories, Russian --- Russian fiction --- Russian fiction. --- Short stories, Russian. --- 1900-1999. --- A Tolstoy. --- Babel. --- Bulgakov. --- Bunin. --- Dovlatov. --- Eastern Europe. --- Kharms. --- Nabokov. --- Platonov. --- Russia. --- Solzhenitsyn. --- Sorokin. --- Zamyatin. --- course reader. --- culture. --- literary trends. --- literature. --- modernisms. --- political dissidents. --- postmodernism. --- short stories. --- socialist realism. --- style. --- translated fiction. --- writing.