This book is a collection of short stories written by Vladimir Korolenko, a Ukrainian-born Russian writer, journalist, human rights activist, and humanitarian of Ukrainian and Polish origin. One of the stories featured shares the same title as the book itself and is a story based on a dying peasant's dream of heaven.

Dream Makers, Dream Breakers, the impassioned biography of the first African-American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, details the social, legal, economic, political, and moral history of the nation over most of the twentieth century. It covers the violent years of the black migration out of the post-bellum South, the frightening rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Depression, two world wars, and the African-American revolution that took place.

The revolutionary ideals of equality, communal living, proletarian morality, and technology worship, rooted in Russian utopianism, generated a range of social experiments which found expression, in the first decade of the Russian revolution, in festival, symbol, science fiction, city planning, and the arts. In this study, historian Richard Stites offers a vivid portrayal of revolutionary life and the cultural factors--myth, ritual, cult, and symbol--that sustained it, and describes the principal forms of utopian thinking and experimental impulse. Analyzing the inevitable clash between the authoritarian elements in the Bolshevik's vision and the libertarian behavior and aspirations of large segments of the population, Stites interprets the pathos of utopian fantasy as the key to the emotional force of the Bolshevik revolution which gave way in the early 1930s to bureaucratic state centralism and a theology of Stalinism.

In this book, first published in 1943, Janko Lavrin provides an overview of the development of the Russian novel by placing the great Russian novelists – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gorky, Gogol – in relation to their native literature and their social, political and cultural backgrounds. An Introduction to the Russian Novel will appeal particularly to students of Russian literature and culture as well as those interested in the development of the novel in general.