{"product_id":"9781782272281","title":"1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution","description":"\u003ci\u003e1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of literary responses to one of the most cataclysmic events in modern world history, which exposes the immense conflictedness and doubt, conviction and hope, pessimism and optimism which political events provoked among contemporary writers - sometimes at the same time, even in the same person. This dazzling panorama of thought, language and form includes work by authors who are already well known to the English-speaking world (Bulgakov, Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mayakovsky), as well as others, whose work we have the pleasure of encountering here for the very first time in English. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited by Boris Dralyuk, the acclaimed translator of Isaac Babel's \u003ci\u003eRed Cavalry \u003c\/i\u003e(also published by Pushkin Press), \u003ci\u003e1917 \u003c\/i\u003eincludes works by some of the best Russian writers - some already famous in the English-speaking world, some published here for the very first time. It is an anthology for everyone: those who are coming to Russian literature for the first time, those who are already experienced students of it, and those who simply want to know how it felt to live through this extreme period in history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOETRY:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eMarina Tsvetaeva, 'You stepped from a stately cathedral ', 'Night. - Northeaster. - Roar of soldiers. - Roar of waves.'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eZinaida Gippius, 'Now', 'What have we done to it?', '14 December 1917'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eOsip Mandelstam, 'In public and behind closed doors'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eOsip Mandelstam, 'Let's praise, O brothers, liberty's dim light'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eAnna Akhmatova, 'When the nation, suicidal'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eBoris Pasternak, 'Spring Rain'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eMikhail Kuzmin, 'Russian Revolution'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eSergey Esenin, 'Wake me tomorrow at break of day'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eMikhail Gerasimov, 'I forged my iron flowers'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eVladimir Kirillov, 'We'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eAleksey Kraysky, 'Decrees'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eAndrey Bely, 'Russia'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eAlexander Blok, 'The Twelve'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eTitsian Tabidze, 'Petersburg'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003ePavlo Tychyna, 'Golden Humming'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eVladimir Mayakovsky, 'Revolution: A Poem-Chronicle', 'To Russia', 'Our March'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePROSE\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eAlexander Kuprin, 'Sashka and Yashka'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eValentin Kataev, 'The Drum'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eAleksandr Serafimovich, 'How He Died'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eDovid Bergelson, 'Pictures of the Revolution'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eTeffi, 'A Few Words About Lenin', 'The Guillotine'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eVasily Rozanov, from 'Apocalypse of Our Time'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eAleksey Remizov, 'The Lay of the Ruin of Rus''\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eYefim Zozulya, 'The Dictator: A Story of Ak and Humanity'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eYevgeny Zamyatin, 'The Dragon'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eAleksandr Grin, 'Uprising'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eMikhail Prishvin, 'Blue Banner'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eMikhail Zoshchenko, 'A Wonderful Audacity'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eMikhail Bulgakov, 'Future Prospects'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Steerforth Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166067966192,"sku":"9781782272281","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781782272281_p0.jpg?v=1763719013","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781782272281","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}