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Biographical note
Boris Dralyuk is an award-winning translator and the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught Russian literature for a number of years. He is a co-editor of the Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, and has translated Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories, both of which are published by Pushkin Press.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
DRAFT TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE REVOLUTION: A POEM-CHRONICLE
STOLEN WINE
Marina Tsvetaeva, ‘You stepped from a stately cathedral ’, ‘Night. – Northeaster. – Roar of soldiers. – Roar of waves.’
Zinaida Gippius, ‘Now’, ‘What have we done to it?’, ‘14 December 1917’
Osip Mandelstam, ‘In public and behind closed doors’
A DISTANT VOICE
Osip Mandelstam, ‘Let’s praise, O brothers, liberty’s dim light’
Anna Akhmatova, ‘When the nation, suicidal’
Boris Pasternak, ‘Spring Rain’
WAKE ME TOMORROW
Mikhail Kuzmin, ‘Russian Revolution’
Sergey Esenin, ‘Wake me tomorrow at break of day’
IRON FLOWERS
Mikhail Gerasimov, ‘I forged my iron flowers’
Vladimir Kirillov, ‘We’
Aleksey Kraysky, ‘Decrees’
PURIFYING FIRE
Andrey Bely, ‘Russia’
Alexander Blok, ‘The Twelve’
Titsian Tabidze, ‘Petersburg’
Pavlo Tychyna, ‘Golden Humming’
OUR MARCH
Vladimir Mayakovsky, ‘Revolution: A Poem-Chronicle’, ‘To Russia’, ‘Our March’
PROSE
THE BREAK
Alexander Kuprin, ‘Sashka and Yashka’
Valentin Kataev, ‘The Drum’
OPEN ARMS
Aleksandr Serafimovich, ‘How He Died’
Dovid Bergelson, ‘Pictures of the Revolution’
THE GUILLOTINE
Teffi, ‘A Few Words About Lenin’, ‘The Guillotine’
APOCALYPSE
Vasily Rozanov, from ‘Apocalypse of Our Time’
Aleksey Remizov, ‘The Lay of the Ruin of Rus’’
OF DRAGONS AND MEN
Yefim Zozulya, ‘The Dictator: A Story of Ak and Humanity’
Yevgeny Zamyatin, ‘The Dragon’
THE TERROR
Aleksandr Grin, ‘Uprising’
Mikhail Prishvin, ‘Blue Banner’
FUTURE PROSPECTS
Mikhail Zoshchenko, ‘A Wonderful Audacity’
Mikhail Bulgakov, ‘Future Prospects’