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A Confession
Leo Tolstoy
4.10 average rating, · 20.9k ratings
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Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
4.08 average rating, · 18k ratings
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My Childhood
Maxim Gorky
4.09 average rating, · 9.3k ratings
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Journey into the Whirlwind
Eugenia Ginzburg
4.33 average rating, · 4.1k ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.49 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.54 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Peter the First
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
4.17 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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My Apprenticeship
Maxim Gorky
4.09 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution
Ivan Bunin
4.19 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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Hope Against Hope
Nadezhda Mandelstam
4.36 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Nikolai Gogol
Vladimir Nabokov
4.15 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
Joseph Frank
4.50 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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An Armenian Sketchbook
Vasily Grossman
4.05 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
Teffi
4.07 average rating, · 1k ratings
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Tolstoy
Henri Troyat
4.35 average rating, · 793 ratings
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The Story of a Life
Konstantin Paustovsky
4.45 average rating, · 758 ratings
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Tolstoy: A Russian Life
Rosamund Bartlett
4.17 average rating, · 778 ratings
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Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849
Joseph Frank
4.35 average rating, · 580 ratings
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