1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution - Tapa blanda

A captivating collection of poetry and prose from the revolutionary year China Mieville [A] broad and erudite collection Financial Times This is great writing Jewish Renaissance A brilliant new anthology -- Phoebe Taplin Russia Beyond the Headlines Expertly collected by Boris Dralyuk... 1917 was an entirely absorbing, moving and exceptional read Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings (blog) Dralyuk has assembled a high-pressure book of crisis writings by authors caught strutting as actors on the world stage Times Literary Supplement The fluidity of thought among Russian writers between February 1917 and late 1919... [provides an] insight into the ebb and flow of literary debate The Scottish Review One of the real gems among the centenary books... Boris Dralyuk assembles a potent blend of novelty, utopianism and eschatology Spectator

100 years since the Russian Revolution: the 20th century's greatest Russian writers respond '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.