RUSS 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Isaac Babel, Red Cavalry, Russian Civil War
1 Feb 2018
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Bolsheviks is no the only socialist party. Want the old reign to come back. Have you volunteer for the red army. Families were broken into pieces by violence. Lots were not thinking about it due to less transmission of news. Parties came to villages and villages and raped and killed. Welcomed the revolution because he believed in the beautiful things promised by the red. Building a new unprecedented society known as the russian experiment. No side would accept him the way he wanted to be accepted. Assigned to semyon budyonny 1st red cavalry army. Helped red to win the political and ideological war. Didn"t know how to slay an enemy or tame a horse. How do the peasants meet the red cavalry. Contrast make it powerful and strikes you and make it disturbing. He wants to and needs to fit. What"s wrong with the situation and the goose and the woman. The goose is the last thing the woman has.
