Russi (Russian) Books

[dixit]

A walk down memory lane. Thread to reminisce about any favorite TV serials from the 80?s through late 90?s.

Listing a few to jog memories:
Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, Buniyaad, Wagle ki Duniya, Quiz Time,

The World This Week, Ramayana, Mahabharat, Kathasagar,

Chanakya, The Sword of Tipu Sultan, Malgudi Days, Circus, Chitrahaar, News : ),

Bharat Ek Khoj, Khandaan, Lifeline, Nukkad, Udaan.

Going on a different path on the nostalgia train...growing up in Central India (MP) we (my siblings and I) used to be a huge fan of Russian books. We had a People's Publishing House bookstore in our city and about once or twice a year they also used to have a sale in my school. Not sure if it was a typical MP/small town thing or if the people from Metros also had that.

Being from MP most of my reading was in Hindi. My favorite writer was N.Nosov and his character Mishka. We also had a lot of folk stories compilation from different region of the old USSR. I practically grew up reading all that ot and later influenced me to read Dostoevsky, Gorky, Chekhov and Tolstoy.

I think in our house in India we still have a lot of those story books

. Mishka ka daliya (Mishka's Porridge)
. Pyaara Kunba (Jolly Family) - about school kids making a incubator
. Toofani Toli
. Jahan Chah Wahan Rah (where there is a will there is a way)
and many many more.....

[BeeAndButterfly]

I have some fairy tale books that were russian in origin. The stories were like the grimms fairy tales, however the names of the characters were russian.

[mn_op]

Oh those Russian books! I think their USP was cheap prices and quality of paper they were printed on. I have read quite a few of them because somehow all of my relatives had bought a bunch of them. It gave us a glimpse in the life of Russians (albeit a very rosy picture than reality). ANotehr good thing about them is that they were thick enough to last you for days...I still have Anna Karenina somewhere deep in my home library in India....unread.

However, one book is still fresh in my memory '7 Days that shook the world' by John Reid...where the author has described Bolsheviks taking over Russia from Mensheviks.

Another memory is of course having book covers made up of pages from slick magazines like 'Soviet Sangha' and 'Soviet Naari'

[dbs]

They had some very good science books as well. My elder son(15 at that time) used to speak very highly of one physics book. I amy still have that book and shall look for it.

[ksheer3]

Soviet propaganda flooded city streets with cheap editions of books in science and maths mainly but also childrens fairy tales--- especially in Cal(Kol). And the US propaganda machine would flood the streets with Russian books banned by the Soviets!!!
Anyone remember Baba Yaaga?

Separately:
Mikhail Sholokhov ---- And Quiet Flows the Don (of the Don trilogy)
Pasternak -- Zhivago

[Desi]

Oh gosh, I have even forgotten the names, but I think I had bought a bunch like Tolstoy's, Doestevski's (I think crime and punishment), etc. Some I read, most I never did finish them. One that I did finish may have actually been banned in Russia - Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov. Remember picking up a few others that were by Russian authors but banned in Russia like The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and a few others, the names escape me.