Author: Babel, Isaac; Author: Translator Willetts, H. T.
Paperback; Standard Hardcover size; Ill. Maps, Ports.
192 pages
Published: March 2002
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300093136

Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Carol J. Avins Translated by H. T. WillettsThis diary by the famed twentieth-century Russian writer -- now available in English for the firsttime -- 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, theextreme 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.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. 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.This diary by 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 and the extreme cruelty of the Polish and Red Armies towards the Jews.