Buy new:
-17% $26.47
$3.99 delivery May 14 - 16
Ships from: LadyLakeBooks
Sold by: LadyLakeBooks
$26.47 with 17 percent savings
List Price: $31.99

The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. Except for books, Amazon will display a List Price if the product was purchased by customers on Amazon or offered by other retailers at or above the List Price in at least the past 90 days. List prices may not necessarily reflect the product's prevailing market price.
Learn more
$3.99 delivery May 14 - 16. Details
In stock
Usually ships within 3 to 4 days.
$$26.47 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$26.47
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Ships from
LadyLakeBooks
Ships from
LadyLakeBooks
Sold by
LadyLakeBooks
Sold by
LadyLakeBooks
Returns
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt. You may receive a partial or no refund on used, damaged or materially different returns.
Read full return policy
Returns
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt. You may receive a partial or no refund on used, damaged or materially different returns.
Read full return policy
Payment
Secure transaction
Your transaction is secure
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
Payment
Secure transaction
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
$23.43
Unread book in perfect condition. Unread book in perfect condition. See less
$3.99 delivery May 14 - 20. Details
Only 10 left in stock - order soon.
$$26.47 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$26.47
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.
Ships from and sold by SuperBookDeals-.
Amazon book clubs early access
Loading your book clubs
There was a problem loading your book clubs. Please try again.
Not in a club? Learn more
Amazon book clubs early access

Join or create book clubs

Choose books together

Track your books
Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free.
Explore Amazon Book Clubs
Kindle app logo image

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.

Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.

QR code to download the Kindle App

Follow the authors

V. V. Erofeev
Follow
Huw Davies
Follow
Something went wrong. Please try your request again later.

Good Stalin Paperback – Illustrated, July 1, 2014

by Victor Erofeyev (Author), Scott D Moss (Translator)
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating
See all formats and editions
{"desktop_buybox_group_1":[{"displayPrice":"$26.47","priceAmount":26.47,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"26","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"47","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"nSCRvHRQPIF9%2BA8Sc%2BSDocHX%2Bks41jxNc%2BSiQQxOQnI9IIRAJLNO6%2B%2F9NCarh4A8SVmW5M%2BIpnFZ6LZy3QCL8vr1BqXwT4ZcuEzplek9cCbEH%2BMXwQEt8zvZxDoYqylXlWmZuW0f%2B7xcKWucFJotFEDpIqfkD280XAqNteDhXN3OQ8XXY9d1tw%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}, {"displayPrice":"$23.43","priceAmount":23.43,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"23","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"43","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"nSCRvHRQPIF9%2BA8Sc%2BSDocHX%2Bks41jxNbok9TZ%2FO2tw2GB0i62niCnk39JDxr9urxql9tFpfSxD1uSGMdDxZtKeXhFaRdRfTK9qVOu50fwiP1snkPrnktDwygFh6jZZwfB6n%2Fbmomncwbfccyz2apIBibVQM6O%2BeBexAOtIgSqppg1L%2F8AXZqQ%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":1}]}

Purchase options and add-ons

The novel Good Stalin is inspired by Erofeev's experience growing up amidst the Soviet political hierarchy. His father, a staunch Stalinist who has dedicated his life and soul to the party, begins as Stalin's personal interpreter, and rises rapidly to the top of the political ladder and into the leader's inner circle. The book reflects the family's prestigious - and yet precarious - position as members of the nomenklatura. In one memorable scene, the main character Victor recalls how he would walk past the Kremlin as a child and comment to friends, "that's where my father works - he and Comrade Stalin".
However, unquestioning devotion to the Communist Party does not come to young Viktor so easily as it had for his father: growing up, he begins to write stories classified as "obscene literature" by the party. Like Erofeev himself, Victor gets involved in the world of dissident literature, violating Soviet censorship laws and being expelled from the Writers' Union. His actions result in the end of his father's career, just at the point when he hoped to be appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Erofeev's autobiographical novel provides both a child's and an adult's perspective on several decades of Soviet history. The book documents not only the emergence of a prominent writer, but also looks at the evolution of the Soviet dissident movement amongst the nomenklatura.


Previous page
  1. Print length
    366 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Glagoslav Publications B.V.
  4. Publication date
    July 1, 2014
  5. Dimensions
    5 x 0.82 x 8 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1782671110
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1782671114
  8. See all details
Next page
The Amazon Book Review
The Amazon Book Review
Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Apparently honest to a fault, Khoroshii Stalin is also a deliberate tease, as much a mockery of the reader as the earlier stories: are we faced with a fiction that reads like an autobiography, or an autobiography disguised as a novel?" Oliver Ready, Times Literary Supplement
"Practically all of Хороший Сталин (Good Stalin) is a wonderful read. Yes, one wishes for a closer consideration of this widespread and unchallenged subservience to Stalin (Erofeyev only goes so far as too offer more general observations about the Russian character), but it's such a winning read that one can readily excuse what shallows there are. Highly recommended." The complete review

About the Author

Victor Erofeev is a well known writer and dissident who was described in a recent documentary about his life as "the Russian libertine". The author of a number of novels, his work has been translated into several languages and has received both critical and popular acclaim.Born in 1947 into the family of a prominent Soviet diplomat, Erofeev spent some of his childhood abroad in Paris. He graduated in philology from Moscow State University, and in 1979 became the editor of the underground magazine Metropol, which brought together prohibited works by Soviet writers such as Bella Akhmadulina, Andrei Bitov and Vasily Aksenov. As a result, he was expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union and his writing was banned until state censorship was relaxed under Gorbachev. Since the fall of the Soviet Union he has been a key public figure in Russia. In 1992 he was awarded the Nabokov Award, and was made a member of the French Order of Arts and Letters in 2006. Erofeev was also editor of the groundbreaking anthology, The Penguin Book of New Russian Writing.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Glagoslav Publications B.V.; Illustrated edition (July 1, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 366 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1782671110
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1782671114
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.82 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating

About the authors

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.
Previous page
  1. V. V. Erofeev

    V. V. Erofeev

    Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
    Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

    Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more

    See more on the author's page
  2. Huw Davies

    Huw Davies

    Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
    Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

    I studied French and Russian at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and have translated more than a dozen books from those languages into English. The Russian books I have translated include biographies of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov, the composer Sergei Prokofiev and the former Russian president Boris Yeltsin, the novel 'Good Stalin', a book called 'The Code of Civilization' by Vyacheslav Nikonov and a book called 'Heroes of the 90s'. As for French books, I have translated a book about contemporary social classes by Thibault Muzergues (called 'The Great Class Shift' in English) and a book about the greatest guitarists in history (and their guitars)...this despite the fact that I don't play the guitar at all, but enjoy playing the trumpet and the drums in my spare time!

    See more on the author's page
Next page

Customer reviews

4 out of 5 stars
4 out of 5
1 global rating

No customer reviews

There are 0 customer reviews and 1 customer rating.