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Cursed Days

Diary of a Revolution

Ivan Bunin - Translated by Thomas Gaiton Marullo - Introduction by Thomas Gaiton Marullo

The Nobel PrizeDwinning author's great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated into English for the first time, with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo. A harrowing description of the forerunners of the concentration camps and the Gulag. —Marc Raeff
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Ivan R. Dee
Pages: 304 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-56663-516-5 • Paperback • June 1998 • $18.90 • (£14.99)
Subjects: History / World, History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Biography & Autobiography / General, History / General, History / Europe / General, Literary Criticism / General, Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post- Communism & Socialism
Valuable...This is not the typical diary of a famous writer, rather, a memoir of the revolution and civil war that captures the political uncertainty of the period.
— Frederick H. White; Slavic and East European Journal


A harrowing description of the forerunners of the concentration camps and the Gulag.
— Marc Raeff


Highly readable.
— The Washington Times


An admirable job...this book deserves attention.
— Atlantic Monthly


The great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, now in English

Cursed Days

Diary of a Revolution

Cover Image
Paperback
Summary
Summary
  • The Nobel PrizeDwinning author's great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated into English for the first time, with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo. A harrowing description of the forerunners of the concentration camps and the Gulag. —Marc Raeff
Details
Details
  • Ivan R. Dee
    Pages: 304 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
    978-1-56663-516-5 • Paperback • June 1998 • $18.90 • (£14.99)
    Subjects: History / World, History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Biography & Autobiography / General, History / General, History / Europe / General, Literary Criticism / General, Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post- Communism & Socialism
Reviews
Reviews
  • Valuable...This is not the typical diary of a famous writer, rather, a memoir of the revolution and civil war that captures the political uncertainty of the period.
    — Frederick H. White; Slavic and East European Journal


    A harrowing description of the forerunners of the concentration camps and the Gulag.
    — Marc Raeff


    Highly readable.
    — The Washington Times


    An admirable job...this book deserves attention.
    — Atlantic Monthly


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Features
  • The great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, now in English

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