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		<title>The Encyclopedia of the Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kiš, Danilo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Danilo Kiš (1983)

A collection of metaphysical short stories set in various times and places, luminously darkened with the themes of fate and death's impenetrability. ]]></description>
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		<title>A Tomb for Boris Davidovich</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Danilo Kiš (1976)

Seven different yet casually interlinked short stories about revolutionaries, mostly centering around the Russian Revolution
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		<title>Heart of a Dog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by Mikhail  Bulgakov (1925)

A renowned Moscow scientist implanted the pituitary's gland and the testes of a dead criminal into a stray dog with the unexpected result of Sharik turning into a complete human. ]]></description>
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		<title>A History of Modern Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Nicholas II to Putin
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Lucidly written with a lack of political bent and a handful of wry humour, this revised and updated history of Russia is a useful general reference on Soviet past with the main focus on the period of communist government.]]></description>
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		<title>Darkness at Noon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Arthur Koestler (1940)

A fictional account of a show trial during Stalin's 1930s purges, Rubashov, the protagonist, once a revolutionary disillusioned by the regime, is abducted, jailed, tortured (psychologically) and finally confessed to a series of "counter-revolutionary" crimes he didn't commit, for the ideals of the Revolution.]]></description>
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