Depends on your preferred genre, but since it has elements of almost every genre I’d say Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
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+1 for Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
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It depends on whether you want to start with a giant doorstep classic Russian novel or some thing more… dare I say accessible? Russian science fiction is not a bad place to start, under the Soviet system it was almost always full of buried critique and satire of the system— the Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic is a brilliant read, and the length of a regular book.
We by Zemyatin is a great book, and the ‘inspiration’ for 1984 (Orwell was *heavily* inspired…) It was written in the early 20s and is an amazing early critique of the emerging Soviet system. It also takes less time to read than some of Dostoevsky’s sentences! /s
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Anna Karenina or Crime and Punishment
Depends on your preferred genre, but since it has elements of almost every genre I’d say Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
+1 for Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
It depends on whether you want to start with a giant doorstep classic Russian novel or some thing more… dare I say accessible? Russian science fiction is not a bad place to start, under the Soviet system it was almost always full of buried critique and satire of the system— the Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic is a brilliant read, and the length of a regular book.
We by Zemyatin is a great book, and the ‘inspiration’ for 1984 (Orwell was *heavily* inspired…) It was written in the early 20s and is an amazing early critique of the emerging Soviet system. It also takes less time to read than some of Dostoevsky’s sentences! /s
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov.
The Master and Margarita
Novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
Master and Margarita