Russian Literature and History

This CD contains 147 books -- all the great classics of Russian literature (such as War and Peace), in English translation, plus 15 "Country Studies" published by the Federal Research Division of the Libary of Congress. Each country study is presented as a single document, in plain text form -- easy to read, to print, and to search.

In addition, we include the CIA World Factbook, an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents, with detailed up-to-date reference information on every country in the world, with images of maps and flags; and

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books (except for the World Factbook) are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

Table of Contents

Country Studies

• Armenia (1994)
• appendix (html document)
• Azerbaijan (1994)
• appendix (html document)
• Belarus (1995)
• appendix (html document)
• Estonia (1995)
• chronology (html document)
• appendix (html document)
• Georgia (1994)
• appendix (html document)
• Kazakstan (1996)
• appendix (html document)
• Kyrgyzstan (1996)
• appendix (html document)
• Latvia (1995)
• chronology (html document)
• appendix (html document)
• Lithuania (1995)
• chronology (html document)
• appendix (html document)
• Modova (1995)
• appendix (html document)
• Russia (1996)
• chronology (html document)
• appendix (html document)
• Soviet Union (1989)
• Tajikistan (1996)
• appendix (html document)
• Turkmenistan (1996)
• appendix (html document)
• Uzbekistan (1996)
• appendix (html document)

2008 CIA World Factbook (with maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world). This is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.

• Country list
• Other files

History

• Bolshevism, The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo, 1919
• The Birth of Yugoslavia by Henry Bearlein
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Bulgaria by Frank Fox
• The Bullitt Mision to Russia by William C. Bullitt
• The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome
• The Discovery of Muscovy by Richard Hakluyt
• From October to Brest-Litovsk by Leon Trotsky
• The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob Raisin, 1913
• The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 compiled by Joel Moore, Harry Mead, and Lewis Jahns, 1920
• The Life of Schamyl and Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia by J. Milton Mackie, 1856
• The Minister of Evil, the Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia by William Le Queux, 1918
• Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome
• Overland Through Asia by Thomas Knox
• Peter the Great by Jacob Abbott
• Rescuing the Czar by James Smythe
• Russia by Donald MacKenzie Wallace
• Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome
• The Russian Revolution by Alexander Petrunkevitch, Sumuel Northrup, and Harper Golden
• A Short History of Russia by Mary Platt Parmele
• The Story of Russia by R. Van Bergen
• Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed

Travel

• A Peep into Toorkisthan by Captain Rollo Bursley
• Russia as Seen and Described by Famous Writers, edited and translated by Esther Singleton, 1909
• Russian Rambles by Isabel F. Hapgood
• Tent-Life in Siberia by George Kennan
• Trapped in "Black Russia" June - November 1915 by Ruth Pierce

Literature and Art

• L'Art Russe, in French, by E. Viollet le Duc, 1877
• Best Russian Short Stories edited by Thomas Seltzer
• Essays on Russian Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
• Folk Tales from the Russian retold by Verra Xenophontovna Kalamatiano de Blumenthal
• The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country by W.F. Kirby (both volumes in one file)
• Russian Fairy Tales, a Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-Lore by W.R.S. Ralston
• Russian Lyrics translated by Martha Bianchi
• The Shield, edited by Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, and Fyodor Solobug, Translated by A. Yarmolinsky, 1917
• A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel F. Hapgood
• Leonid Andreyev
• The Crushed Flower and Other Stories
• Plays (Savva, Life of Man)
• Seven Who Were Hanged
• Anton Chekhov
• The Bishop and Other Stories
• The Cherry Orchard and Other Plays
• On the High Road
• The Proposal
• The Wedding
• The Bear
• Tragedian in Spite of Himself
• The Anniversary
• The Three Sisters
• The Cherry Orchard
• The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
• The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
• Darling and Other Stories
• The Duel and Other Stories
• The Horse Stealers and Other Stories
• Ivanov (play)
• The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
• Letters of Anton Chekhov
• Love and Other Stories
• Note-Book of Anton Chekhov
• The Party and Other Stories
• The Schoolmistress and Other Stories
• The Seagull (play)
• The Slanderer, translated by Herman Bernstein (story)
• The Swan Song (play)
• Uncle Vanya (play)
• The Wife and Other Stories
• The Witch and Other Stories
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Crime and Punishment
• The Gambler
• The Grand Inquisitor (excerpt from The Brothers Karamazon), translated by H.P. Blavatsky
• The Idiot
• Notes from the Underground
• Poor Folk
• The Possessed (in html format)
• Gogol
• Dead Souls
• Taras Bulba
• The Inspector General
• St. John's Eve
• Ivan Goncharov
• The Precipice
• Maxim Gorky
• Creatures that Once Were Men
• Foma Gordyeff
• Mother
• Through Russia
• Twenty-Six and One and Other Stories
• Maxim Gorki by Hans Ostwald, translated by Frances A. Welby
• Peter Kropotkin
• Mutual Aid
• Alexandra Kuprin
• Yama (The Pit)
• Mikhail Lermontov
• A Hero of Our Time
• Nicholas Nekrassov
• Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?
• Alexander Ostrovsky
• Plays
• The Storm
• Boris Pilnyak
• Tales of the Wilderness
• Alexander Pushkin
• The Bakchesarian Fountain and Other Poems, translated by William Lewis
• Boris Godunov (play)
• Daughter of the Commandant
• Marie, a Story of Russian Love
• The Queen of Spades, translated by H. Twitchell (story)
• The Shot (story)
• The Talisman and Other Stories
• Feodor Sologub
• The Created Legend, translated by John Cournos
• Leo Tolstoy
• Anna Karenina
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• Part 8
• The Awakening (The Resurrection), translated by William E. Smith
• Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, translated by C.J. Hogarth
• Father Sergius
• Forged Coupon and Other Stories
• The Kingdom of God is Within You
• The Kreutzer Sonata
• Master and Man
• The Moscow Census (from "What to Do")
• An Old Acquaintance (from "The Invaders")
• Plays (Redemption, Power of Darkness, and Frutis of Culture)
• Science and Art
• Thoughts Evoked by the Moscow Census (from "What to Do")
• War and Peace
• Book 1
• Book 2
• Book 3
• Book 4
• Book 5
• Book 6
• Book 7
• Book 8
• Book 9
• Book 10
• Book 11
• Book 12
• Book 13
• Book 14
• Book 15
• What Men Live By
• Youth
• Ivan Turgenev
• A Desperate Character and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett
• Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories
• Dream Tales and Prose Poems, translated by Constance Garnett
• A House of Gentlefolk
• The Jew and other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett
• Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories
• Liza
• Mumu
• On the Eve
• A Reckless Character and Other Stories, translated by Isabel Hapgood
• Rudin
• Sportsman's Sketches, translated by Constance Garnett
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Torrents of Spring
• Virgin Soil