Isaac Babel (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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A leading Russian short-story writer during the 1920’s, Babel became a suspect in the eyes of the Soviet police after publishing Red Cavalry (1926), a collection of stories about the Russian civil war. Although he had joined the Bolsheviks during the revolution, his stories presented the revolution and civil war as he saw them—an orgy of barbarous actions perpetrated by all sides. Publication of that book marked the beginning of official distrust that shadowed Babel through the rest of his life. The fact that he was Jewish contributed to this distrust,...
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