Russian

The first of Levi’s works to be published in full in Russia was If This is a Man, published in 2001 with a press run of 3600 copies. Before that, from 1968 to 1989, 11 of his stories were published in three different scientific anthologies and in a journal. During the 2000s The Truce (2002) and The Periodic Table (2008) were translated by Elena Dmitrieva and published by Tekst (Moscow). So far, none of Levi’s other works have been translated into Russian, even though there were many attempts to do so. On this, Elena Dmitrieva wrote, "For at least 30 years, more or less, various translators from Italian have been asking the state publishers to publish If This is a Man, but their pleas had no effect. We were among those who thought it was important to publish – myself and Evgenij Solonovich, who wrote the prefaces for If This is a Man and The Truce. The first time we had proposed the publication of If This is a Man to the editors of the journal Inostrannaja Literatura dates back to 1987.