Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution

by Ivan Bunin, Thomas Gaiton Marullo (Translator), Thomas Gaiton Marullo (Introduction)

Overview

Here is Bunin's great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated into English for the first time. Cursed Days is a chilling account of the last days of the Russian master in his homeland. He recreates the time of revolution and civil war with graphic and gripping immediacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566635165
Publisher:	Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
Publication date:	06/01/1998
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.24(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.92(d)

What People are Saying About This

Marc Raeff

A harrowing description of the forerunners of the concentration camps and the Gulag.

Editorial Reviews

A harrowing description of the forerunners of the concentration camps and the Gulag.

Marc Raeff

Highly readable.

The Washington Times

An admirable job...this book deserves attention.

Atlantic Monthly

Valuable...This is not the typical diary of a famous writer, rather, a memoir of the revolution and civil war that captures the political uncertainty of the period.

Slavic and East European Journal - Frederick H. White Frederick H. White

A harrowing description of the forerunners of the concentration camps and the Gulag.--Marc Raeff

An admirable job...this book deserves attention.-- "Atlantic Monthly"

Highly readable.-- "The Washington Times"

Valuable...This is not the typical diary of a famous writer, rather, a memoir of the revolution and civil war that captures the political uncertainty of the period.--Frederick H. White "Slavic and East European Journal"

From the Publisher

Valuable...This is not the typical diary of a famous writer, rather, a memoir of the revolution and civil war that captures the political uncertainty of the period.

Slavic and East European Journal - Frederick H. White

Highly readable.

Washington Times

Valuable...This is not the typical diary of a famous writer, rather, a memoir of the revolution and civil war that captures the political uncertainty of the period.
— Slavic and East European Journal

White

The first English translation of Bunin's scathing account of the last days of the Russian master in his homeland<-->a work banned during the years of Soviet power. Bunin, one of the last of the gentry tradition of Russian literature, describes his pain and suffering in witnessing the takeover of his country by the Bolsheviks and the chaos of civil war, and his fears for the devastation of patriarchal Russian culture. An introduction and notes are provided by translator Thomas Gaiton Marullo (Russian and Russian Literature, U. of Notre Dame). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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