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Money and Possessions: Russia

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Store window in Moscow advertising athletic goods. The motto reads, "Play at a new level." By Derek Holtham via Flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Store window in Moscow advertising athletic goods. The motto reads, “Play at a new level.” By Derek Holtham via Flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Slaves of Moscow

By Victoria Lomasko

Once there, they had been robbed of their passports and forced to work without pay for twenty hours a day.

Translated from Russian by Thomas Campbell

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Unity of Form

By Regina Derieva

People zealously granted me headless nails / and spools without thread.

Translated from Russian by Valzhyna Mort

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Grandmother’s Little Hut

By Andrei Platonov

“No one in our family lasts long. And I’m no different—I only look like I’m doing OK . . . ”

Translated from Russian by Jesse Irwin

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Fragments from the Dollmaker’s Life

By Danila Davydov

1A woman tells the Dollmaker.—What happens in your shopWhy do you spend all night and day in thereIt can’t be for the sake of moneyYou wouldn’t have time to spend it anywaySo why the work…

Translated from Russian by Peter Golub

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