Thanks for this recommendation, and the links.
I’ve maybe mentioned him before?, but for early Soviet-era stories of the uncanny, I can recommend Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. “Quadraturin” is a good story of his to start with, and if you like that, the waters get deeper, in the rest of the Memories of the Future collection, and his short novel The Return of Munchausen (both of these are NYRB, but maybe can be found elsewhere?).
This blogger has written up some bio details, and includes excerpts of some of his works:
