If you're going to do this: start with: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and "Doctor Zhivago". These are the Poe/Twain/London for Russia (to some extent).
I highly reccomend Russian film as well: Stalker and Solaris (Not Cloonie, the Russian version) are also great. I have a bit of a love of Sci Fi, may not be your tastes.
You should also hunt around for anything and everything you can find on early Russian computing, Cybernetics, their efforts and thoughts on central planning, and the ternary computing projects they did.
I highly reccomend Russian film as well: Stalker and Solaris (Not Cloonie, the Russian version) are also great. I have a bit of a love of Sci Fi, may not be your tastes.
You should also hunt around for anything and everything you can find on early Russian computing, Cybernetics, their efforts and thoughts on central planning, and the ternary computing projects they did.