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epub | 9.64 MB | English | Isbn:9780795348259 | Author: Mikhail Bulgakov, Roger Cockrell (Translator) | Year: 2012
About ebook: The White Guard
Quote:The setting is Kiev in 1918, a time of revolution, turmoil and civil war. The Germans have occupied the city, Petlyura's Socialists are camped outside awaiting their moment, while the Bolsheviks watch, contemplating their buried armaments. The once wealthy Turbin family are in anguish as their world grows smaller and smaller. Called a modern classic by C. P. Snow, this novel first appared in 1923, and was banned by Stalin in the '30s.
Category:Fiction, Literature, World Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Russian Fiction, Literary Criticism, Politics & Social Issues - Fiction, War & Military Fiction, 20th Century Russian Fiction - Under Soviet-Rule, Political Unrest - Fiction, Revolutions & Uprisings - Fiction, General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous