Issac Babel: 120th anniversary

13th July 2014 marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Soviet Russian writer Isaac Babel. His best known work, ‘Red Cavalry’, described his time with a mounted Red Army unit in the 1920 war with Poland, but he also wrote stories exploring his background in the Jewish quarters of Odessa in the Ukraine, as well as doing journalism, literary criticism and screen plays.

For a commemorative article, see:

Isaac Babel – Soviet writer, victim of Stalinism