Beautifully written descriptions of people and places that no longer exist, this book makes you understand why the Bolsheviks did what they did.
Favourite stories: Singers, Chertopkhanov and Nedopyuskin, The End of Chertopkhanov and Living Relic
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I loved these as well! I heard that these stories encouraged Tsar Alexander II to abolish serfdom.