Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution

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

Overview

The Nobel PrizeDwinning author's great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated into English for the first time, with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo. A harrowing description of the forerunners of the concentration camps and the Gulag. -Marc Raeff

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461730309
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	06/01/1998
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	1 MB

What People are Saying About This

Marc Raeff

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

Editorial Reviews

An admirable job...this book deserves attention.

Atlantic Monthly

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.

Booknews

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

“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

From the Publisher

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

Marc Raeff

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.

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

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