1920 diary / Isaac Babel ; edited by Carol J. Avins ; translated by H.T. Willetts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1940.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Avins, Carol.

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1941--Diaries.

Soldiers, Russian--Diaries.

Soldiers, Russian.

Authors, Russian--20th century--Diaries.

Authors, Russian.

Soviet Union--History--Russo-Polish War, 1919-1920--Personal narratives, Russian.

Local Subjects:

Babelʹ, I. (Isaak), 1894-1941--Diaries.

Soviet Union--History--Russo-Polish War, 1919-1920--Personal narratives, Russian.

Genre:

Diaries.

Personal narratives.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

192 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

Translated from the Russian.

Summary:

Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Carol J. Avins Translated by H. T. Willetts

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 Real Cavalry, Babel's bestknown 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.

Notes:

This translation originally published: 1995.

ISBN:

0300093136

OCLC:

50252748