Summaries of Soviet literary classics

Soviet pulp novels?

The daughter of a Volga fisherman becomes a sniper with a Red partisan detachment. She misses her 41st vicitim (a White officer), then winds up stranded with him on a desert island, where they fall in love. However, the White’s essentially selfish, bourgeois nature becomes apparent and she shoots him, fulfilling her mission and her class destiny. (Sorok-Pervii, 1924)

Rocket-airships, radio-controlled tanks, and Death Rays. Evil Americans try to destroy the socialist paradise of the future, but the Soviets counterattack and win. Remnant capitalists flee to an underground base near Antartica, planning to escape into outer space. Socialism on one planet! (Borba v Efire, 1928)

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