Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel was a Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry, Story of My Dovecote, and Tales of Odessa, all of which are considered masterpieces of Russian literature. Babel has also been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry". Loyal to, but not uncritical of, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Babel fell victim to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge as the result of his long-term affair with the wife of NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov. Babel was arrested by the NKVD at Peredelkino on the night of 15 May 1939. After confessing under interrogation to being a Trotskyist terrorist and foreign spy, he was shot on 27 January 1940.
Contents:
Early stories.
Old Shloyme
At grandmother's
Elya Isaakovich and Margarita Prokofievna
Mama, Rimma, and Alla
The public library
Nine
Odessa
The aroma of Odessa
Inspiration
Doudou
Shabos-Nakhamu
On the field of honor.
On the field of honor ;
The deserter ;
Papa Marescot's family ;
The Quaker
The sin of Jesus
An evening with the empress
Chink
A tale about a woman
The bathroom window
Bagrat-Ogly and the eyes of his bull
Line and color
You missed the boat, captain!
The end of St. Hypatius.
The Odessa stories.
The king
Justice in parentheses
How things were done in Odessa
Lyubka the Cossack
The father
Froim Grach
The end of the almshouse
Sunset.
The Red Cavalry stories.
Crossing the river Zbrucz
The church in Novograd
A letter
The reserve cavalry commander
Pan Apolek
Italian sun
Gedali
My first goose
The rabbi
The road to Brody
The Tachanka theory
Dolgushov's death
The commander of the second brigade
Sashka Christ
The life of Matvey Rodionovich Pavlichenko
The cemetery in Kozin
Prishchepa
The story of a horse
Konkin
Berestechko
Salt
Evening
Afonka Bida
At Saint Valentine's
Squadron Commander Trunov
Ivan and Ivan
The continuation of the story of a horse
The widow
Zamosc
Treason
Czesniki
After the battle
The song
The rabbi's son.
The Red Cavalry cycle : additional stories.
Makhno's boys
A hardworking woman
Grishchuk
Argamak
The kiss
And then there were nine
And then there were ten
A letter to the editor.
The Red Cavalryman : articles.
What we need is more men like Trunov!
The knights of civilization
Dispatch office, shape up!
Murderers who have yet to be clubbed to death
Her day.
1920 diary
Sketches for the Red Cavalry stories.
Reports from Petersburg, 1918.
First aid
Horses
Premature babies
The dead
The palace of motherhood
Evacuees
Mosaic
Quite an institution!
The Georgian, the Kerensky Rubles, and the General's daughter (a modern tale)
The blind
The evening
I was standing at the back
A beast can't talk
Finns
A new life
An incident on the Nevsky Prospekt
The most Holy Patriarch
At the station : a sketch from life
On Palace Square
The concert in Katerinenstadt.
Reports from Georgia, 1922-1924.
At the workers' retreat
Kamo and Shaumian
Without a homeland
Muslim seminaries and Soviet schools
Tobacco
Gagry
In Chakva
Renovations and refurbishment
Paris and Juliet.
Reports from France, 1935.
The city of light
French schools
Town and country
Court of Justice and Parliament
The popular front
The power of money
The red belt.
Stories, 1925-1938.
The story of my dovecote
First love
Karl-Yankel
The awakening
In the basement
Gapa Guzhva
Kolyvushka
The road
The Ivan and Maria
Guy de Maupassant
Petroleum
Dante Street
Di Grasso
Sulak
The trial
My first fee.
Variations and manuscripts.
Roaming stars : a movie tale
A story
Information
Three in the afternoon
The Jewess.
Plays.
Sunset
Maria.
Screenplays.
Roaming stars
Benya Krik
The Chinese mill (an attempted mobilization)
Number 4 Staraya Square
Two scenes from The forging of steel.
The Germans in the Ukraine ;
In Petlyura's prison.
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