1920 Diary
This diary by the famed twentieth-century Russian writer - now available in English for the first time - recounts Babel's experiences with the Cossack Calvary during the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-1920. The basis for Red Calvary, Babel's best-known work, it records the devastation of the war, the...
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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 Calvary during the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-1920. The basis for Red Calvary, 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780300093131 (0300093136)
Publish date: February 8th 2002
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
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