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• Secondhand Time

  the Last of the Soviets

  Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-

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  Journalist Alexievich (Voices from Chernobyl), who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, captures the heartache, excitement, and harsh realities of life at the end of the Soviet era and the birth of modern Russia. (Library Journal)

• Chasing a Butterfly

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  In this 2005 documentary, director Natasha Guruleva returns to her hometown of Vladivostock after a decade away, intending to resettle there. But post-Soviet Russia is an unfamiliar place and Guruleva is no longer certain she belongs.

• Finna

  Cipri, Nino

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  Like MOTHER RUSSIA, Finna is a comic tale of low-wage workers, here set in a big-box Scandinavian furniture store that also happens to be a portal into the multiverse.

• The Future Is History

  How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

  Gessen, Masha

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  Gessen, the esteemed Russian-American journalist, takes an intimate look at Russia in the post-Soviet period, when the public's hopes for democracy devolved within a restricted society characterized by "a constant state of low-level dread."…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• True Failure

  Higley, Alex,

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  Higley's darkly comic novel is "a twisting examination of life under late capitalism and the deceptions we inhabit to invent our own success stories." (publisher description)

• Inside McDonald's

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  McDonald's symbolizes the world of capitalism in MOTHER RUSSIA. Take a deeper look inside the corporation with this brief documentary.

• The Kilroys List

  97 Monologues and Scenes by Female and Trans Playwrights. Volume One

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  MOTHER RUSSIA playwright Lauren Yee is featured in this collection with "Colony Collapse."

• Death and the Penguin

  Kurkov, Andreĭ

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  Hired to write obituaries of Kiev VIPs to be kept on file, Ukranian writer Viktor, who owns a penguin Misha, discovers he is writing death warrants when the VIPs die with regularity and realizes someone is writing his own obituary. (NoveList)

• The Factory

  Oyamada, Hiroko, 1983-

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  In Oyamada's cautionary English-language debut, three recent hires at an inscrutable industrial factory find themselves bewildered by their strange new world. (Kirkus)

• The Last Empire

  the Final Days of the Soviet Union

  Plokhy, Serhii, 1957-

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  Plokhy, a professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, investigates the collapse of the Soviet Union, revealing the often brutal political chess game within the Kremlin that ended in President George H. W. Bush's address of the end of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Employees

  a Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

  Ravn, Olga

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  Like Euvgeny and Dmitri in MOTHER RUSSIA, the characters in this workplace drama navigate the changing labor conditions in society and attempt to adapt -- but here they're on a spaceship.

• Lenin's Tomb

  the Last Days of the Soviet Empire

  Remnick, David

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  The Washington Post's Moscow correspondent chronicles the collapse of the Soviet empire, from the rise of glasnost, through the final lowering of the Soviet flag, to the start of the post-Communist age. (NoveList)

• Monday Starts on Saturday

  Strugat͡skiĭ, Arkadiĭ, 1925-1991

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  Sasha Privalov, a young computer programmer, visits the small town of Solovets for a holiday and gets swept into a new job at what turns out to be the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy (or NITWiT). His adventures…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Superstore. Season One

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  Like MOTHER RUSSIA, Superstore is a workplace comedy that takes on the absurdities of retail.

• Seattle Rep's MOTHER RUSSIA Website

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  Euvgeny and Dmitri are just two average guys who dream of cushy government jobs—but after the fall of the Soviet Union, they end up working retail instead. As they bumble their way through capitalism, they get entangled with an alluring former pop…Read moreRead more of this annotation