The Tale of Ak and Humanity by Yefim Zozulya

This riveting collection catches them on the cusp of change, on the brink of darkness, when they were free to so brilliantly catalog the turbulence around them.' - Minneapolis Star Tribune So strong are the voices collected here that their words have the power to shock and stir a century on. Many of the writers here would go on to face persecution, ostracism or worse. 'A captivating collection of poetry and prose from the revolutionary year.' - China Miéville in October: The Story of the Russian Revolutionġ917 'showcases the brutality and uncertainty that reigned as an old regime was dismantled and a new order established. well balanced between the October revolution's supporters and those appalled by it.' - Andrew Stuttaford, The Wall Street Journal Mikhail Zoshchenko, 'A Wonderful Audacity'.Yefim Zozulya, 'The Dictator: A Story of Ak and Humanity'.Aleksey Remizov, 'The Lay of the Ruin of Rus''.Vasily Rozanov, from 'Apocalypse of Our Time'.

Teffi, 'A Few Words About Lenin', 'The Guillotine'.Dovid Bergelson, 'Pictures of the Revolution'.Vladimir Mayakovsky, 'Revolution: A Poem-Chronicle', 'To Russia', 'Our March'.Mikhail Gerasimov, 'I forged my iron flowers'.Sergey Esenin, 'Wake me tomorrow at break of day'.Anna Akhmatova, 'When the nation, suicidal'.Osip Mandelstam, 'Let's praise, O brothers, liberty's dim light'.Osip Mandelstam, 'In public and behind closed doors'.Zinaida Gippius, 'Now', 'What have we done to it?', '14 December 1917'.Marina Tsvetaeva, 'You stepped from a stately cathedral ', 'Night.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. 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.Įdited by Boris Dralyuk, the acclaimed translator of Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry (also published by Pushkin Press), 1917 includes works by some of the best Russian writers - some already famous in the English-speaking world, some published here for the very first time. 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution is 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.

The Tale of Ak and Humanity by Yefim Zozulya