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My favourite publisher from the 70's and 80's. Only a specific town in South India used to have a shop that sells Russian books and communist literature. Travelled to that town and bought a few chess books. "Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies" by Gary Kasparyan was always in my hands.
Were they translated to Hindi or kept in their original language?
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Curator/maintainer of Mir Titles here. The blog and the archive page are not in sync, we try to publish one book a day on the blog. The archive collection has more (recent) titles than the blog.
Good to know! Why do all posts on your blog have the "follow us" with all the social links though? Seems like a lot of wasted space on the whole webpage
One of my personal favourites is Bulgakov'с Master and Margarita and The Bull's Hour by Ivan Efremov.
Bull's Hour is actually amazing as it explores societies built on different principles using a form of a novel.
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I inherited a large (to me) collection of books from the USSR from my grandfather who immigrated here. Do you know how someone could find a collector or something who would appreciate them? I'm not looking to make money here, I just don't want the books to stay on the shelf of someone who will never read or appreciate them.
We could host them, I personally have a collection of about 2k Soviet books, about 6-7k in total.
Since we are on the topic of russian literature I'd definitely recommend reading something other than the usual suspects Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. One of my personal favourites is Bulgakov'с Master and Margarita and The Bull's Hour by Ivan Efremov. Bull's Hour is actually amazing as it explores societies built on different principles using a form of a novel.
Since we are on the topic of russian literature I'd definitely recommend reading something other than the usual suspects Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. One of my personal favourites is Bulgakov'с Master and Margarita and The Bull's Hour by Ivan Efremov. Bull's Hour is actually amazing as it explores societies built on different principles using a form of a novel.
I was born in USSR and was an still am avid reader. However never liked either of those two.
Totally agree about Efremov. Great writer
My favourite publisher from the 70's and 80's. Only a specific town in South India used to have a shop that sells Russian books and communist literature. Travelled to that town and bought a few chess books. "Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies" by Gary Kasparyan was always in my hands.
Maintainer/curator of Mir Titles here.
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They had a thing of encouraging talent and putting it in special schools to develop it. Then Maths reading groups etc.
Not only that. Corporations are filled with excellent software developers from Russia who did not go to any specialized schools or graduated from prestigious universities.
Anyone aware of any official/private efforts in China or Russia to digitize or republish these books. Nowdays, finding these books particularly in languages like Hindi is very difficult.
Officially all this does not seem to be supported in any way, I'm afraid.