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Amazing not only as literature but as biography. -- Richard Bernstein, New York Times
Marvelously subtle, tragic, and often comic. -- James Wood, The New Republic
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One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel's reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s. Using his own experiences as a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army during the war against Poland, Babel brings to life an astonishing cast of characters from the exuberant, violent era of early Soviet history: commissars and colonels, Cossacks and peasants, and among them the bespectacled, Jewish writer/intellectual, observing it all and trying to establish his role in the new Russia.
Amazing not only as literature but as biography. -- Richard Bernstein, New York Times
Marvelously subtle, tragic, and often comic. -- James Wood, The New Republic
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One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel's reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s. Using his own experiences as a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army during the war against Poland, Babel brings to life an astonishing cast of characters from the exuberant, violent era of early Soviet history: commissars and colonels, Cossacks and peasants, and among them the bespectacled, Jewish writer/intellectual, observing it all and trying to establish his role in the new Russia.
Drawn from the acclaimed, award-winning Complete Works of Isaac Babel, this volume includes all of the Red Cavalry cycle; Babel's 1920 diary, from which the material for the fiction was drawn; and his preliminary sketches for the stories—the whole constituting a fascinating picture of a great writer turning life into art.
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Red Cavalry, Sixth Cavalry Division, Red Army, Soviet Union, Sixth Division, Second Brigade, Isaac Babel, Konstantin Karlovich, Revolutionary Tribunal, Elizaveta Alekseyevna, First Brigade, Pan Apolek, Third Brigade, Revolutionary Committee, First Squadron, Mother of God, Jesus Christ, Kuban Cossacks, Semyon Timofeyich, Twelfth Army, Fourteenth Division, Pani Eliza, Afonka Bida, Evdokiya Fyodorovna, General Budyonny New!
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- The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel in Back Matter
- Quo Vadis: A Narrative Of The Time Of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz on page 254
- Seven Samurai: The Ultimate Film Guide by Roy Stafford on page 9
- Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn in Front Matter
- My Universities (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Maxim Gorky in Back Matter
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- Men without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917–1929 by Eliot Borenstein on 43 pages
- Jews in Russian Literature after the October Revolution: Writers and Artists between Hope and Apostasy (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature) by Efraim Sicher on 29 pages
- Babel: Collected Stories (Penguin Classics) by Isaac Babel on 20 pages
- At His Side: The Last Years of Issac Babel by A N Pirozhkova on 14 pages
- n+1, Number 2: Happiness by n+1 on 13 pages
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