The Red Laugh is an utterly harrowing and nightmarish depiction of a sort of apocalypse that springs from the chaos, blood, and misery of Russia's humiliating defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, in language that prophetically echoes the horrors to come during the First World War. Centered on two name...more
Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev (Russian: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2751825.__________________________" title=" Леонид Николаевич Андреев" rel="nofollow"> Леонид Николаевич Андреев ; 1871-1919) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature. He was active between the revolution of 1905 and t...more
