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ISBN-10: 0-300-07054-3
ISBN-13: 9780300070545
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Year: February 27, 1997
Size: 13.82 x 20.85 x 1.57cm
Number of pages: 184
Weight: 245gr
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0-300-07054-3
ISBN-13: 9780300070545
Publisher: Yale University Press
Country:
Year: February 27, 1997
Size: 13.82 x 20.85 x 1.57cm
Number of pages: 184
Weight: 245gr
Binding: Paperback
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Isaac Babel, Professor Carol J. Avins (Eds.), Mr. H. T. Willetts (translator)
Yale University Press; 1995
Hardcover
Isaac Babel, Professor Carol J. Avins (Eds.), H. T. Willetts (translator)
Yale University Press; 2002
Paperback
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This diary by the famed twentieth-century Russian writer-now available in English for the first time-recounts Babel`s experiences with the Cossack cavalry during the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-1920. The basis for Red Cavalry, Babel`s best-known work, it records the devastation of the war, the extreme cruelty of the Polish and Red armies alike toward the Jewish population in the Ukraine and eastern Poland, and Babel`s own conflicted role as both Soviet revolutionary and Jew.
This diary by the famed twentieth-century Russian writer-now available in English for the first time-recounts Babel`s experiences with the Cossack cavalry during the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-1920. The basis for Red Cavalry, Babel`s best-known work, it records the devastation of the war, the extreme cruelty of the Polish and Red armies alike toward the Jewish population in the Ukraine and eastern Poland, and Babel`s own conflicted role as both Soviet revolutionary and Jew.
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JOTTINGS OF GENIUS 
The journal Isaac Babel kept when he rode with the Cossacks in the 1919-20 war the Soviet Union waged against Poland served as source material for the stories in his brilliant collection, RED CALVARY. The diaries are a gem in themselves, displaying Babel's immediate response to the situation at hand, later to be transmuted by the writer's alchemy into the gold of the stories. It is a little slice of history in the raw, viewed through the eyes of a great writer, a writer who refused to conform to »socialist realism,« a writer who 20 years later would be executed by the State Security Apparatus of the USSR.
The journal Isaac Babel kept when he rode with the Cossacks in the 1919-20 war the Soviet Union waged against Poland served as source material for the stories in his brilliant collection, RED CALVARY. The diaries are a gem in themselves, displaying Babel's immediate response to the situation at hand, later to be transmuted by the writer's alchemy into the gold of the stories. It is a little slice of history in the raw, viewed through the eyes of a great writer, a writer who refused to conform to »socialist realism,« a writer who 20 years later would be executed by the State Security Apparatus of the USSR.
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