RUSS 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Isaac Babel, Semyon Budyonny, Leon Trotsky
1 Feb 2018
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Higher rank hate them because they are peasants. Trunov wanted to shot the prisoner which is against the policy. Writing down the info of the prisoner. Trunov killed two and lyutov wants to report it. He was taking clothes from the spoil of war. Vosmilevtov and trunov sacrificed themselves to do damage to the plane. I brought up my family with these five fingers. I am one of you and i am a working man. I fight because i don"t have choice. Red army is suppose to free working men. Exhilarate and appalled by the violence of the revolution. Clashes and reconciliation btwn the susceptible intellectual and the violent riders. The contradiction btwn the ruthless soldiers of the revolution and their idealist aspiration. One of the leading russian writers in early 30s. Budenny attacked him for depicting the red cossacks monsters defaming the heroism of the revolution. Babel and gorky believed in the revolution and stayed.
