02604nam 22005053 450 991015467220332120250127202028.09781782272281(CKB)3710000000907186(MiAaPQ)EBC4781660(MiAaPQ)EBC6057224(Au-PeEL)EBL6057224(OCoLC)1156146785(Perlego)3033050(EXLCZ)99371000000090718620210901d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrier1917 stories and poems from the Russian Revolution1st ed.Hanover :Steerforth Press,2016.©2016.1 online resource (187 pages)Pushkin CollectionIntro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Editor's Note -- Acknowledgements -- THE REVOLUTION: A POEM-CHRONICLE -- Stolen Wine -- A Distant Voice -- Wake Me Tomorrow -- Iron Flowers -- Purifying Fire -- Our March -- PROSE -- The Break -- The Red Train -- The Guillotine -- Apocalypse -- Of Dragons and Men -- Blue Banners and Scarlet Sails -- Future Prospects -- Notes -- About the Author -- About the Publisher -- Copyright.?'This is the last of you, old world - soon we'll smash you to bits.'The passionate voices of radicals, dreamers, workers, aristocrats, satirists and romantics fill these electrifying poems and prose pieces, written between 1917 and 1919 in the full tumult of the Russian Revolution.From apocalyptic visions to heartfelt calls for freedom, from depictions of bloody carnage to an acerbic portrait of Lenin, the writings brought together here are by turns fervent, absurd, disorienting and tragic.Some writers - Bulgakov, Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova - are well-known, others all but forgotten; many would not survive what was to come. All speak to us a century later, re-creating the whirlwind of euphoria and terror, hopes and betrayals of that exhilarating, brutal time. Pushkin CollectionPushkin CollectionSoviet UnionHistoryRevolution, 1917-1921In literatureRussiaHistoryFebruary Revolution, 1917In literatureRussiafastSoviet Unionfast891.708/004Dralyuk Boris1155413Dralyuk Boris1155413MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK991015467220332119172891859UNINA