| Abstract (about 50 words): | Ivy Litvinov (1889-1977) was an English-Russian writer and translator. This essay analyzes the unpublished stories by Ivy Litvinov which exist in the Hoover Archive at Stanford University. These fictions render the atmosphere of Stalinist Russia a seen by an apparently innocent narrator who gradually realizes the atrocious surveillance that characterizes the Communist system and discovers the lies deftly covered by an extremely efficient propaganda. |