Title: The red commissar
First published: 1983
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'.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Soldiers, Translations into English
Places: Czechoslovakia
People: Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923)