1920 Diary -

Isaac Bábel

Yale University Press

1995

126 páginas

4h 12m

ISBN-10: 0300070543

This diary by the 20th-century Russian writer Isaac Babel recounts his experiences with the Cossack cavalry during the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-20. 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 towards the Jewish population in the Ukraine and eastern Poland, and Babel's own conflicted role as both Soviet revolutionary and Jew.