Isaac Babel’s (1894–1940) 1926 book Konarmiya (“Red Cavalry,” 2002) is considered a masterpiece of early Soviet Russian literature. In the thirty-five short stories of the slim volume, Babel presents a powerful battle panorama based on the Polish-Soviet War of 1920. He also created the self-portrait of a sympathetic first-person narrator, a Je…
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Freidin, Gregory, “Red Cavalry”, in: Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online, Original German Language Edition: Enzyklopädie Jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur. Im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig herausgegeben von Dan Diner. © J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland 2011–2017. Consulted online on 02 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-8894_ejhc_COM_0734>
First published online: 2017
First print edition: 20221116
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