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A HUNDRED VOICES

Compiled before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022  and completed in its shadow 
this groundbreaking anthology brings together voices from across two centuries of Russian
literature - voices of exile and resistance  of defiance and survival.    From the golden age
of the nineteenth century to the contested present  here are stories that speak from within and
against empire  censorship  and war. Compiled before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in
2022 and completed in its shadow  this collection confronts the cultural complicity of the
Russian language while celebrating its power to resist.  Edited by Sergei Lebedev - 'the best
of Russia's younger generation of writers' ( The New York Review of Books ) - the anthology is
structured around five interrelated but distinct literary strands:  1. Classical Russian
literature  2. Emigrant literature written in exile 3. Soviet censored literature 4. Uncensored
Soviet literature 5. Post-Soviet literature  Here you will find tales smuggled through samizdat
penned in prison cells  whispered in exile  and shouted into the void. They are stories that
survived the Tsar's censors  Stalin's purges  and Putin's propaganda. The result is a
battlefield of ideas  where incompatible truths collide and endure  and which serves to prove
the great power of the word  the magical power that literature has always wielded -
particularly in Russia.   Reviews for Sergei Lebedev:  'One of Russia's most interesting young
novelists' Anne Applebaum  'Lebedev is arguably the best of Russia's younger generation of
writers' New York Review of Books  'One of modern Russia's finest writers' Philippe Sands

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