Red Cavalry
by Isaak Babelʹ
Category: Fiction

A collection of interlinking short stories, first published in the 1920s, draws on the author's own experiences as a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army during the war against Poland to capture the turbulent, violent era of early Soviet history, in a volume that contains the complete Red Cavalry cycle, Babel's original 1920 diary of the period, and his preliminary sketches for the story. Original.