Query: Political novels set in Russia but are not Science Fiction
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
With Chronos' Permit
The Mulberry Empire
Under Western Eyes (novel)
Ice Road (novel)
Return from Siberia
Journalists (novel)
Flashman at the Charge
How the Steel Was Tempered
And Quiet Flows the Don
The State Counsellor
Petersburg (novel)
Evidence from documents: The Mulberry Empire: set in Russia: The story then shifts to the Crimea, where widowed landowner Nikolai Mikhailovich Layevsky welcomes back his son Pavel from a five-year-long stint in the army. To his horror the reunion is far from private as Pavel has brought with him Vitkevich. A terminally impolite eccentric who gives off a perpetual air of sullen insouciance, Vitkevich is not only a favourite of the Russian royal family, but also an object of adoration by his fellow officers.
Political novels: the second novel by English author, Philip Hensher, released on 3 September 1998 through the now defunct Flamingo imprint of HarperCollins.Longlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize, the novel centres around the causes and ultimate denouement of the First Anglo-Afghan War as experienced through the eyes of over a hundred characters both real and fictional.
but are not Science Fiction: the novel centres around the causes and ultimate denouement of the First Anglo-Afghan War as experienced through the eyes of over a hundred characters both real and fictional.
Under Western Eyes (novel): a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Fyodor Dostoevsky's ''Crime and Punishment''; Conrad was reputed to have detested Dostoevsky. It has also been interpreted as Conrad's response to his own early life; his father was a Polish independence activist and would-be revolutionary imprisoned by the Russians, but, instead of following in his father's footsteps, at the age of sixteen Conrad left his native land, only to return briefly decades later
Ice Road (novel): novel written by South African-born Gillian Slovo. It was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Set in Leningrad in the 1930s, the story about power in Stalinist Russia is narrated by Irina Davydovna, a cleaning lady.
Return from Siberia: The novel, a roman à clef, is split into two alternating narratives: John Simon (i.e. Shallman) and his family discovering a manuscript written by his maternal grandfather Joseph Rakow in present-day California, interspersed with chapters describing Rakow's experiences of experiences of being exiled to Siberia during the final years of the Russian Empire
Journalists (novel): The novel begins with a bomb explosion at the newspaper ''Moskovskij Bogomolets (Moscow Believer)'', which kills a famous Moscow journalist and affects the paper's editorial staff.
Flashman at the Charge: ''Flashman at the Charge'' begins with Flashman trying to avoid a transfer to the Crimea but failing miserably. He is made guardian of one of Queen Victoria's cousins and is sent to the midst of the Crimean War. Flashman witnesses and participates in the most notable offensive and defensive actions of that war, and eventually finds himself trekking across Asia in an effort to save the British Raj.
How the Steel Was Tempered: a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936). With 36.4 million copies sold, it is one of the best-selling books of all time.
The story follows the life of Pavel Korchagin, including his fighting in and aftermath of the Russian Civil War. Korchagin fought for the Bolsheviks during the war and was injured. The novel examines how Korchagin heals from his wounds and thus becomes as strong as steel.
And Quiet Flows the Don: The novel is considered one of the most significant works of world and Russian literature in the 20th century. It depicts the lives and struggles of Don Cossacks during the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and Russian Civil War. In 1965, Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the novel.
The State Counsellor: Moscow, 1891
Petersburg (novel): There are many allusions within the novel to the city's history going back to its founding by Peter the Great, and it incorporates a number of literary allusions to literature set in Petersburg (especially ''The Bronze Horseman'') as well as Russian literature in general.