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Gone with the Wind - The post-Soviet Sequels
Series of five collectively authored sequels to Margaret Mitchell's bestselling Gone with the Wind. Writing in Minsk, the anonymous authors published under the pseudonym Dzhuliia Khilpatrik and released titles like We'll Call Her Scarlett, Rhett Butler's Son, and Scarlett's Last Love.
View ArtifactOlympic Stadium Book Market
The center of the post-Soviet book trade made its home in the corridors of the enormous stadium built for the 1980s summer games in Moscow. It was chaotic, even dangerous, and an embarrassment of riches.
View ArtifactProekt OGI
A literary club opened by the United Humanitarian Publishers (OGI) in 1998 in the apartment of Dmitrii Ol'shanskii, Proekt OGI represented one of the more successful attempts to reclaim the late-Soviet underground in the new post-Soviet, capitalist world.
View ArtifactLong Live PaperLessLit
Soviet paper shortages, new computer technologies, and the lifting of censorship come together in an unexpected way in this proposal to preserve manuscripts of unpublished authors for posterity.
View ArtifactThe Black Series from Vagrius
The book series “Contemporary Russian Prose” or the “Black Series,” published by Vagrius, one of post-Soviet Russia’s most successful commercial publishers, made bestsellers out of literary prose.
View ArtifactPhilosophy on the Margins
Series of philosophical and theoretical texts from Russian and international authors published by Ad Marginem and meant to bring the latest in global thought into newly opened post-Soviet minds.
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