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Synopsis
Isaac Babel served with a Cossack cavalry regiment of the Red Army during the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-1920. Readers familiar with Babel's Red Cavalry pieces will find the sources of those stories in this diary. Babel details the rampant anti-Semitism of both Poles and Russians, his own conflicted position as a Jewish revolutionary, and the devastation and cruelty of the war.
| Size | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 5.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"A literary event ...illuminating an almost forgotten history....Brilliant, ...a gem of compressed, unsparing, truthful observation."
New York Times - Richard Bernstein
"To Babel, literature was the true life, and the curiosity needed to pursue it involved a deliberate risk, like volunteering to be a war reporter and riding with the Cossacks who despised him for his reluctance to kill even an animal."
New York Review of Books - Alfred Kazin (06/22/1995)
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