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Best on Film
Elena
(2011) Winner of a Jury Prize at Cannes, this drama examines the meaning of love,
family and class in modern Moscow.
Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears
(1980) Great chick flick that bagged an Oscar for best
foreign-language film.
My Perestroika
(2010) An insightful documentary about coming of age during the
peres-
troika
(restructuring) era and navigating life in contemporary Moscow.
Best in Print
The Master and Margarita
(Mikhail Bulgakov) The most telling fiction to come out of the
Soviet Union.
On the Golden Porch
(Tatyana Tolstaya) Short stories focusing on big souls in little flats in
the 1990s.
Anna Karenina
(Leo Tolstoy) A legitimate alternative for readers who don't have time for
War and Peace.
Children of the Arbat
(Anatoly Rybakov) A tragic but vivid portrait of 1930s Russia.
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