1920 Diary
Place_Pub: New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. First Printing. 126, illus., map, notes, ink name of previous owner, DJ somewhat worn and soiled. This diary by the famed twentieth-century Russian writer recounts Babel's experiences with the Cossack cavalry during the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-1920. 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 toward the Jewish population in the Ukraine and eastern Poland, and Babel's own conflicted role as both Soviet revolutionary and Jew. The diary yields important insights into Babel's personal evolution showing his youthful curiosity and his anguish as, frequently concealing his own Jewish identity, he mingled with the victimized Jews of the region's shtetls and with his Cossack comrades. Condition: very good, good.
Keywords: Jews, Cossacks, Anti-Semitism, Polish-Sovie War, Revolutionary, Timoshenko, Isaac Babel, Pogroms, Soviet Union
ISBN: 0300059663
[Book #53199]
Price: $35.00