Research Guides: Russian: 20th Century (Soviet Period, 1917-1989)

20th Century (Soviet) Authors & Texts

Abramov, Fedor (1920-1983)
Novelist & Short Story Writer
EWL20, RGRL
Afinogenov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich (1904-1941)
Dramatist
PCEL
Aitmatov, Chingiz Torekulovich (1928- )
Prose Writer
RGRL
Akhmadulina, Bella Akhatovna (1937- )
Poet
ECWW, EWL20, PCEL, RGRL, RPSE
✪ Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna (1889-1966) [also Anna Gorenko]
Poet
CSP, ECWW, EW, EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Aksenov, Vasilii Pavlovich (1932- ) [also Vasily Aksyonov]
Prose Writer & Dramatist
CSD, EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Aldanov, Mark Aleksandrovich (1886-1957)
Novelist & Journalist
PCEL, RGRL
Aliger, Margarita Iosifovna (1915-1992)
Poet
ECWW, PCEL, RPSE
Anstei, Ol'ga Nikolaevna (1912-1985)
Poet
ECWW
Antokol'skii, Pavel Grigorʹevich (1896-1978) [also Antokol'sky]
Poet
PCEL
Arbuzov, Aleksei Nikolaevich (1908-1986)
Dramatist
CEMD, PCEL
Astaf'ev, Viktor Petrovich (1924- )
Prose Writer
RGRL
✪ Babel’, Isaak Emmanuilovich (1894-1941)
Prose Writer & Dramatist
EW, EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Bagritsky, Eduard (1895-1934) [also Bagritskii] [pseud. of Eduard Georgievich Dzyubin]
Poet
EWL20, PCEL
Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1895-1975)
Philosopher & Literary Theorist
EWL20
Baklanov, Grigorii (1923-2009)
Prose Writer
RGRL
Bal’mont, Konstantin Dmitrievich (1867-1943)
Poet & Translator
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Bely, Andrey (1880-1934) [also Andrei Belyi, Andrey Biely]
Poet & Prose Writer
EW, EWL20, PCEL, RGRL, RGWL
Berberova, Nina Nikolaevna (1901-1993)
Novelist & Memoirist
ECWW, RGRL
Bitov, Andrei (1937- )
Prose Writer
RGRL
Bondarev, Iurii (1924- )
Novelist
RGRL
✪ Brodsky, Joseph (1924- ) [also Iosif Brodskii]
Poet & Essayist
CSP, EWL20, RGRL, RGWL
✪ Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanas'evich (1891-1940)
Prose Writer & Dramatist
CEMD, CSD, EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich (1870-1953)
Prose Writer & Poet
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL, RGWL
Chukhontsev, Oleg (1938- )
Poet
RGRL
Chukovskaia, Lidiia Korneevna (1907-1996)
Prose Writer & Memoirist
ECWW, RGRL
Chukovskii, Kornei (1882-1969) [also Chukovsky]
Critic, Memoirist, Literary Translator, & Children's Writer
PCEL, RGRL
Daniel', Iulii (1925-1988) [also Yuli Daniel]
Prose Writer, Poet, & Literary Translator
RGRL
Dovlatov, Sergei Donatovich (1941-1990)
Prose Writer
EWL20, RGRL
Dudintsev, Vladimir (1918-1998)
Prose Writer & Journalist
PCEL, RGRL
Ehrenburg, Il'ia Grigorevich (1891-1967) [also Ilya Erenburg]
Prose Writer, Poet, & Essayist
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Erofeev, Venedikt (1933- ) [also Yerofeev]
Novelist, Dramatist, & Essayist
EWL20, RGRL
Esenin, Sergei Aleksandrovich (1895-1925) [also Yesenin]
Poet
CSP, EWL20, PCEL, RGRL, RGWL
Evreinov, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1879-1953)
Dramatist
CEMD, CSD
Fadeev, Aleksandr (1901-1956)
Novelist
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Fedin, Konstantin (1892-1977)
Novelist
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Figner, Vera Nikolaevna (1852-1942)
Poet, Revolutionary, & Prose Writer
ECWW
Forsh, Olʹga Dmitrievna (1873-1961) [Pseud. A. Terek]
Novelist & Short Story Writer
ECWW
Furmanov, Dmitrii (1891-1926)
Prose Writer
RGRL
Galich, Aleksandr Arkad’evich (1919-1977)
Poet, Dramatist, & Song Writer
RGRL
Ginzburg, Evgeniia Semenovna (1906-1977)
Memoirist
RGRL
Ginzburg, Lidiia (1902-1990)
Memoirist, Prose Writer, & Literary Theorist
ECWW, RGRL
Gladilin, Anatolii Tikhonovich (1935- )
Prose Writer
RGRL
✪ Gorky, Maksim (1868-1936) [also Maksim Gor'kii]
Dramatist & Prose Writer
CEMD, CSD, EW, EWL20, PCEL, RGRL, RGWL
Grekova, Irina Nikolaevna (1907-2002) [Pseud. of Elena Ventsel; Elena Sergeevna Venttsel'; Elena Sergeevna Ventcel', etc.]
Prose Writer & Mathematician
ECWW, RGRL
Grin, Aleksandr (1880-1932)
Prose Writer
RGRL
Grossman, Vasilii Semenovich (1905-1964)
Prose Writer
RGRL
Gumilev, Nikolai Stepanovitch (1886-1921) [also Nikolay Gumilyov]
Poet
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Hippius, Zinaida Nikolaevna (1869-1945) [also Z. N. Gippius]
Poet, Prose Writer, & Dramatist
ECWW, EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
✪ Ilʹf, Ilʹia (1897-1937)
Satirist
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Note: Published in partnership with Evgenii Petrov (listed also on this page)
Il'ina, Nataliya Iosifovna (1914-1994)
Journalist, Memoirist, & Prose Writer
ECWW
Inber, Vera Mikhailovna (1890-1972)
Poet, Prose Writer, Dramatist, & Journalist
ECWW, PCEL, RPSE
Iskander, Fazil' (1929- )
Prose Writer & Poet
EWL20, RGRL
Ivanov, Georgii Vladimirovich (1894-1958)
Poet & Prose Writer
RGRL
Ivanov, Viacheslav Ivanovich (1866-1949) [also Vyacheslav Ivanovich]
Poet & Literary Theorist
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Ivanov, Vsevolod Viacheslavovich (1895-1963)
Prose Writer & Dramatist
PCEL, RGRL
Kataev, Valentin Petrovich (1897-1986) [also Katayev]
Prose Writer
EWL20, PCEL, GRL
Kaverin, Veniamin Aleksandrovich (1902-1989)
Prose Writer & Dramatist
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Kazakevich, Emmanuil (1913-1962)
Short Story Writer
RGRL
Kazakov, Iurii (1927-1982)
Short-Story Writer
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Kharms, Daniil Ivanovich (1905-1942)
Prose Writer, Poet, & Dramatist
CEMD, RGRL
Khodasevich, Vladislav Felitsianovich (1886-1939)
Poet & Critic
CSP, EWL20, RGRL
Kirsanov, Semen Isaakovich (1906-1972) [also Semyon Kirsanov]
Poet
PCEL
Kirshon, Vladimir Mikhailovich (1902-1938)
Dramatist
PCEL
Klyuev, Nikolay Alexeevich (1887-1937) [also Nikolai Alekseevich Kliuev]
Poet
EWL20
Kollontai, Aleksandra Mikhailovna (1872-1952)
Prose Writer & Politician
ECWW, RGRL
Kuprin, Aleksandr Ivanovich (1870-1938)
Prose Writer
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Kuzmin, Mikhail Alekseevich (1872-1936)
Poet
EWL20, PCEL
Lavrenev, Boris Andreievich (1891-1959) [also Lavrenyov]
Dramatist
PCEL
Leonov, Leonid Maximovich (1899-1994)
Novelist & Dramatist
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Loseff, Lev Vladimirovich (1937-2009)
Poet & Critic
RGRL, RPSE
✪ Maiakovskii, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1894-1930) [also Vladimir Mayakovsky]
Poet & Dramatist
CEMD, CSD, CSP, EW, EWL20, PCEL, RGRL, RGWL
Makanin, Vladimir Semenovich (1937- )
Prose Writer
RGRL
Maksimov, Vladimir Emelʹianovich (1930-1995)
Novelist, Dissident, & Publicist
RGRL
✪ Mandelʹshtam, Osip Emil'evich (1891-1938)
Poet, Prose Writer, Literary Critic, & Translator
CSP, EW, EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Marshak, Samuil Iakovlevich (1887-1964)
Poet
PCEL, RGRL
Martynov, Leonid Nikolaevich (1905-1980)
Poet, Journalist, & Essayist
PCEL, RPSE
Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich (1865-1941) [also Dmitrii Merezhkovskii]
Poet & Prose Writer
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Mikhalkov, Sergei Vladimirovich (1913-2009)
Dramatist & Satirist
PCEL
✪ Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1899-1977)
Prose Writer & Translator
EWL20, RGRL
Nagibin, Iurii Markovich (1920-1994)
Prose Writer
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Nekrasov, Viktor Platonovich (1911-1987)
Prose Writer
PCEL, RGRL
Nilin, Pavel Filippovich (1908-1981)
Novelist & Short Story Writer
PCEL
Odoevtseva, Irina (ca. 1895/1909-1990) [Pseud. of Iraida Gustavovna Heinecke; also Iraida Ivanoff/ Iraida Heinecke, etc.]
Poet, Novelist, & Memoirist
ECWW
Okudzhava, Bulat Shalvovich (1924-1997)
Guitar-Poet & Novelist
EWL20, RGRL,RPSE
Olesha, Iurii Karlovich (1899-1960)
Prose Writer, Poet, & Dramatist
CEMD, CSD, EW, EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Ostrovsky, Nikolai Alekseevich (1904-1936) [also also Nikolay Ostrovsky]
Prose Writer
EWL20, RGRL
Panova, Vera Fedorovna (1905-1973) [Pseud. Vera Vel'tman]
Prose Writer & Dramatist
EWL20, ECWW, PCEL, RGRL
Pargment, Lila (1888-1971)
Short Story Writer & Translator
RGRL
Parnok, Sofiia Iakovlevna (1885-1933) [also Sophia Parnok; Pseud. A. Polianin]
Poet
ECWW, RGRL
✪ Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich (1890-1960)
Poet, Prose Writer, Essayist, & Translator
CSP, EW, EWL20, PCEL, RGRL, RGWL
Paustovsky, Konstantin Georg'evich (1893-1968)
Prose Writer
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
✪ Pelevin, Viktor (1962- )
Prose Writer
RGRL
✪ Petrov, Evgenii Petrovich (1903-1942) [pseud. of Evgenii Petrovich Kataev]
Satirist & Humorist
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Note: Published in partnership with Il'ia Il'f (listed also on this page)
Petrovykh, Mariia Sergeevna (1908-1979)
Poet & Translator
ECWW
Petrushevskaia, Liudmila Stefanovna (1938- )
Dramatist & Prose Writer
EWL20, RGRL
Pil'niak, Boris Andreevich (1894-1938) [also Pilnyak]
Prose Writer
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL, RGWL
Platonov, Andrei Platonovich (1899-1954)
Prose Writer
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Pogodin, Nikolai Fedorovich (1900-1962)
Dramatist
PCEL
Polevoi, Boris Nikolaevich (1908-1981)
Short Story Writer
RGRL
Prigov, Dmitrii Aleksandrovich (1940- )
Performance Poet & Artist
RGRL
Prishvin, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1873-1954)
Prose Writer
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Radzinskii, Edvard Stanislavovich (1936- )
Dramatist & Novelist
EWL20
Rasputin, Valentin Grigorʹevich (1937- )
Prose Writer
EWL20, RGRL
Ratushinskaia, Irina Borisovna (1954- )
Poet, Prise Writer, & Dissident
ECWW, RGRL
Remizov, Alekseĭ Mikhailovich (1877-1957)
Prose Writer
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Rozov, Victor Sergeevich (1913-2004)
Dramatist
PCEL
Rybakov, Anatolii Naumovich (1911-1998)
Novelist
RGRL
Samoilov, David Samuilovich (1920-1990)
Poet
RGRL
Sedakova, Ol'ga Aleksandrovna (1949- )
Poet & Critic
RGRL, RPSE
Serafimovich, Aleksandr (1863-1949)
Prose Writer
PCEL, RGRL
Severianin, Igor' (1887-1941) [Pseud. of: Igor' Vasil'evich Lotarev]
Poet
RGRL
Shaginian, Marietta Sergeevna (1888-1982) [also Marietta Shaginyan; Pseud. "Jim Dollar"]
Prose Writer & Poet
ECWW, RGRL
Shalamov, Varlam Tikhonovich (1907-1982)
Poet & Prose Writer
RGRL
Shklovskii, Viktor Borisovich (1893-1984)
Prose Writer & Critic
PCEL
Shmelev, Ivan Sergeevich (1875-1950) [also Shmelyov]
Novelist
✪ Sholokhov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich (1905-1984)
Prose Writer
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL, RGWL
Shukshin, Vasilii Makarovich (1929-1974) [also Vasily Shukshin]
Prose Writer, Film Director, & Actor
EWL20, RGRL
Shvarts, Evgenii L'vovich (1896-1958) [also Evgeny Shvarts; Eugene Schwarz]
Dramatist
CEMD, CSD, PCEL, RGRL
Simonov, Konstantin Mikhaĭlovich (1915-1979)
Poet & Prose Writer
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Siniavskii, Andrei Donatovich (1925-1997) [also: Andrey Sinyavsky]
Prose Writer, Essayist, & Critic
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Sofronov, Anatolii Vladimirovich (1911-1990)
Dramatist, Librettist, Lyricist
PCEL
Sokolov, Sasha Vsevolodovich (1943- ) [also Shura Sokolov; Aleksandr Sokolov]
Prose Writer
EWL20, RGRL, RGWL
Soloukhin, Vladimir Alekseevich (1924-1997)
Poet & Journalist
EWL20, PCEL
✪ Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich (1918-2008)
Prose Writer, Dramatist, & Poet
EW, EWL20, PCEL, RGRL, RGWL
Sorokin, Vladimir Georgievich (1955- )
Prose Writer
RGRL
Strugatskii, Arkadii Natanovich (1925-1991) [also Strugatsky]
Science Fiction Writer
RGRL
Note: Joint author with brother.
Strugatskii, Boris Natanovich (1933- ) [also Strugatsky]
Science Fiction Writer
RGRL
Note: Joint author with brother.
Tarkovskii, Arsenii Aleksandrovich (1907-1989) [also: Arseniy Tarkovsky]
Poet & Translator
RPSE
Teffi (1872-1952) [Psued. of Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaia Buchinskii]
Prose Writer, Dramatist, & Poet
RGRL
Tendriakov, Vladimir Fedorovich (1923-1984) [also Vladimir Tendryakov]
Prose Writer
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Tikhonov, Nikolai Semenovich (1896-1979)
Poet, translator, & Short Story Writer
PCEL, RPSE
Tokareva, Viktoriia Samoilovna (1937- )
Prose Writer & Scriptwriter
ECWW, RGRL
Tolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich (1883-1945) [also Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi]
Novelist
PCEL, RGRL
Tolstoy, Alexandra Lʹvovna (1884-1979)
Memoirist & Short Story Writer
ECWW
Trenyov, Konstantin Andreevich (1876-1945) [also Trenev]
Dramatist
PCEL
Trifonov, Iurii Valentinovich (1925-1981) [also Yury Trifonov]
Prose Writer
EWL20, RGRL, RGWL
Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna (1892-1941) [also Marina Cvetaeva]
Poet & Prose Writer
CSP, ECWW, EW, EWL20, PCEL, RGRL, RGWL
Tvardovskii, Aleksandr Trifonovich (1910-1971)
Poet & Editor
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL
Tynianov, Iurii Nikolaevich (1894-1943)
Literary Theorist & Historical Novelist
RGRL
Vampilov, Aleksandr Valentinovich (1937-1972)
Dramatist
RGRL
Varlamova, Inna Gustavovna (1922/23?- )
Prose Writer & Translator
ECWW
Vengerova, Zinaida Afanasevna (1867-1941)
Translator & Critic
ECWW
Verbitskaia, Anastasiia Alekseevna (1861-1928)
Prose Writer
ECWW, RGRL
Vigdorova, Frida Abramovna (1915-1935)
Journalist & Prose Writer
ECWW
Vinokurov, Evgenii Mikhailovich (1925- )
Poet
Vishnevskii, Vsevolod Vitalʹevich (1900-1951) [also Vishnevsky]
Dramatist
PCEL
Vladimov, Georgii Nikolaevich (1931-2003)
Novelist
RGRL
Voinovich, Vladimir Nikolaevich (1932- ) [also Voynovich]
Prose Writer
EWL20, RGRL
Volodin, Aleksandr Moiseevich (1919-2001) [pseud. of A. M. Lifshits]
Dramatist & Poet
PCEL
Voloshin, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich (1877-1932)
Poet
PCEL, RGRL
Voznesenskii, Andrei Andreevich (1933-2010)
Poet
CSP, PCEL, RGRL, RPSE
Vvedenskii, Aleksandr Ivanovich (1904-1941)
Poet & Dramatist
RGRL
Vytotskii, Vladimir Semenovich (1938-1980) [also Vladimir Vytosky]
Poet & Songwriter
EWL20, RGRL, RPSE
✪ Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich (1933- ) [also Evgenii Evtushenko]
Poet & Prose Writer
CSP, EWL20, PCEL, RGRL, RGWL, RPSE
Yurieff, Zoya Osipovna (1922- )
Essayist & Critic
ECWW
Zabolotskii, Nikolai Alekseevich (1903-1958) [also Nikolay Zabolotsky]
Poet
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL, RPSE
Zaitsev, Boris Konstantinovich (1881-1972) [also Zaytsev]
Prose Writer & Dramatist
EWL20, RGRL
Zalygin, Sergei Pavlovich (1913-2000)
Prose Writer & Literary Critic
RGRL
✪ Zamiatin, Evgenii Ivanovich (1884-1937) [also Evgenij Zamjatin; Yevgeny Zamyatin; etc.]
Prose Writer
CSD, EW, EWL20, PCEL, RGRL, RGWL
Zinik, Zinovii (1945- )
Prose Writer & Literary Critic
RGRL
Zinov'ev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (1922-2006) [also Aleksandr Zinoviev]
Prose Writer & Philosopher
RGRL
✪ Zoshchenko, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1895-1958)
Prose Writer & Dramatist
EWL20, PCEL, RGRL, RGWL