Books by Yuri Druzhnikov

When Russia was in the throes of Joseph Stalin's campaign for the forced collectivization of Soviet agriculture, a young boy named Pavlik Morozov informed the OGPU (later called the KGB) that his father was an enemy of the regime

In Prisoner of Russia, Yuri Druzhnikov analyzes the distortions and misrepresentations of Alexander Pushkin's cultural appropriation by focusing on Pushkin's attempts at emigration and his attitudes toward Russia and Western Europe. Druzhnikov's semi-biographical narrative concentrates on Pushkin's attempts to leave Russia after his graduation from the Lyceum, through his period of exile, until his early death in a duel in 1837.

An analysis of the distortions and misrepresentations of Pushkin's cultural appropriation by focusing on Pushkin's attempts at emigration and his attitudes towards Russia and Western Europe. Druzhnikov's narrative concentrates on Pushkin's attempts to leave Russia and his period of exile until his death and combines literary and political history.