20th Century works about the Caucasus - list

[John Lyles]

Dear All,

Thank you to everyone who replied with contemporary Russian works about the
Caucasus.  I had suspected that there were far fewer works on this subject
from Soviet times, and the responses I have gotten confirmed that.  I will
continue researching and see what I can come up with.  In the meantime, here
is a compiled list of all the replies I received, in case anyone else is
interested.

Thanks again!
John


*Literature*

*Appearing in GLAS*

Makanin's "Captives of the Caucasus" (in CAPTIVES);

Arkady Babchenko's "Argun" (in War&Peace);

Denis Butov's "Five Days of War" (in War&Peace);

Alan Cherchesov's novel Requiem for the Living;

Julia Latynina's Niyazbek (in War&Peace);

Gulla Khirachev's short novel Salam, Dalgat (in Squaring the Circle);

Arslan Khasavov's Braguny Story (also in Squaring the Circle)



*Appearing in "Chtenia: Readings from Russia" *

"To the Caucasus" = a section devoted to contemporary stories about the
Caucasus



German Sadulaev’s *I Am a Chechen* (to be released)

Babchenko’s “Alkhan-Iurt”, translated into English as a “Soldier's Story.”



Anatolii Pristavkin's "Nochevala tuchka zolotaia" (1987),

Vladimir Makanin's "Kavkazskii plennyi" (1999, if my memory serves)

Boris Akunin's "Smert' Akhillesa" (1998; at least partially relevant)

Viktor Pelevin ("Papakhi na bashniakh").

Pristavkin, “The Inseparable Twins”

Charskaia, multiple works

Makanin’s “Asan”



“Fun and Fortune in Georgia,” appearing in Gazeta Kopeika



*Georgian Literature*

"Home, and Home Again" by emigre Georgian writers George and Helen
Papashvily



*British Literature*

Fitzroy Maclean's 20th century travelogue "To Caucasus, the End of the
Earth"



*Films*

Gaidai's "Kavkazskaia plennitsa,"

Bodrov Sr.'s "Kavkazskii plennik,"

Nevzorov's "Chistilishche,"

Konchalovskii's "Dom durakov,"

Rogozhkin's "Blokpost,"

Balabanov's "Voina,"

Mikhalkov's "12," and

Sokurov's "Aleksandra"

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