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1917 : stories and poems from the Russian revolution / selected by Boris Dralyuk.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russian literature--20th century--Translations.
- Russian literature.
- Russian poetry--20th century--Translations.
- Russian poetry.
- History.
- Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--In literature.
- Soviet Union.
- Russia--History--February Revolution, 1917--In literature.
- Russia.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Other Title:
- Nineteen hundred seventeen : stories and poems from the Russian revolution
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pushkin Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- 'This is the last of you, old world - soon we'll smash you to bits.' The passionate voices of radicals, dreamers, workers, aristocrats, satirists and romantics fill these electrifying poems and prose pieces, written between 1917 and 1919 in the full tumult of the Russian Revolution. From apocalyptic visions to heartfelt calls for freedom, from depictions of bloody carnage to an acerbic portrait of Lenin, the writings brought together here are by turns fervent, absurd, disorienting and tragic. Some writers - Bulgakov, Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova - are well-known, others all but forgotten; many would not survive what was to come. All speak to us a century later, re-creating the whirlwind of euphoria and terror, hopes and betrayals of that exhilarating, brutal time. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The Revolution: A Poem-Chronicle
- Stolen Wine 15
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) 19
- Zinaida Gippius (1869-1945) 21
- Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) 24
- A Distant Voice 25
- Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) 28
- Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) 29
- Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) 30
- Wake Me Tomorrow 31
- Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936) 35
- Sergey Esenin (1895-1925) 37
- Iron Flowers 38
- Mikhail Gerasimov (1889-1937) 42
- Vladimir Kirillov (1890-1937) 43
- Alexey Kraysky (1891-1941) 45
- Purifying Fire 46
- Audrey Bely (1880-1934) 49
- Alexander Blok (1880-1921) 50
- Titsian Tabidze (1893-1937) 67
- Our March 68
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) 71
- Prose
- The Break 77
- Alexander Kuprin (1870-1938) 83
- Valentin Kataev (1897-1986) 94
- The Red Train 109
- Alexander Serafimovich (1863-1949) 113
- Dovid Bergelson (1884-1952) 119
- The Guillotine 122
- Teffi (1872-1952) 124
- Apocalypse 136
- Vasily Rozanov (1856-1919) 140
- Alexey Remizov (1877-1957) 146
- Of Dragons and Men 155
- Yefim Zozulya (1891-1941) 161
- Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) 179
- Blue Banners and Scarlet Sails 181
- Mikhail Prishvin (1873-1954) 187
- Alexander Grin (1880-1932) 196
- Future Prospects 201
- Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894-1958) 206
- Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) 209.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-236).
- ISBN:
- 9781782272144
- 1782272143
- OCLC:
- 945482976
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