Deti Arbata - Children of the Arbat Author:Anatolii Rybakov Blockbuster character-driven anti-Stalinist novel written in the 1960s but published in the USSR only in the Glasnost period. This was the first book in the trilogy which included the sequels-Fear (1993) and Dust & Ashes (1996). Rybakov was born in 1911 and died in 1999. He is considered to be one of the world's great modern writers, having begu... more »n his literary career with children's books.« less