The white guard
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The white guard
Academy Chicago, 1987, c1971
- pbk.
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Belai︠a︡ gvardii︠a︡
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Translation of: Belai︠a︡ gvardii︠a︡
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Description
The setting is Kiev in 1918, a time of revolution, turmoil and civil war. The Germans have occupied the city, Petlyura's Socialists are camped outside awaiting their moment, while the Bolsheviks watch, contemplating their buried armaments. The once wealthy Turbin family are in anguish as their world grows smaller and smaller. Called a modern classic by C. P. Snow, this novel first appared in 1923, and was banned by Stalin in the '30s.
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