Author: Babel', Isaac
Title: Konarmiia
Description: Flegon Press, nd c 1967, 1st thus. Paperback, VG. 170pp, spine yellowed, otherwise a nice copy. The cover is a facsimile of the 1928 original edition. At the back of the book is a 6pp essay 'Russko Angliyskiy Politicheskiy Slovar' ' by L N Kondratov. Paperback , no dustjacket. ¶ A collection of short stories by the Russian author Isaac Babel' [ 1894 - 1940 ] based upon the diary he kept whilst a journalist covering the Polish - Soviet War. The outspoken nature of the book led it to be banned in 1933. Babel' was executed by the NKVD in 1940.

Keywords: russian literature, soviet literature