The red commissar
Subtitle: including further adventures of the good soldier S̆vejk and other stories
By: Jaroslav Has̆ek ; translated [from the Czech] by Cecil Parrott ; original illustrations by Josef Lada.
Contributors: Lada, Josef, 1887-1957.
Publisher: The Dial Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng; cze
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Has̆ek, Jaroslav, 1883-1923 -- Translations into English; Soldiers -- Czechoslovakia -- Fiction; Czechoslovakia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Description: A selection from his Bugulma stories (Hasek as Bolshevik and Red Commissar), some early Svejk stories, reminiscences of Hasek's apprenticeship days, and the hilariously funny speeches made by Hasek when promoting his political 'Party of Moderate Progress within the bounds of the Law'.