Odessa Stories by Isaac Babel

Author:Isaac Babel [Isaac Babel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782271796
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: 2016-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Formed in November 1917 by Generals Mikhail Alexeyev (1857–1918) and Lavr Kornilov (1870–1918), the Volunteer Army was the first organized military force to challenge the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1918–22). It was part of the Armed Forces of South Russia (formed in 1919), which was itself part of the larger White Army.

2 Arcadia is a beachside resort district in Odessa.

3 The Cheka, or ChK—abbreviated from Chrezvychainaya komissiya (Emergency Committee)—was created in December 1917 to weed out and suppress enemies of the nascent Bolshevik regime. It was the first incarnation of the Soviet secret police and was largely responsible for implementing the campaign of Red Terror, which took as many 1.5 million lives during the Russian Civil War. The Odessa branch was established in April 1919 and, as Babel indicates, was first located in luxurious confiscated flats on Yekaterinskaya Square.

4 Foreign intervention in the Russian Civil War began with the French and Greek occupation of Odessa in December 1918. The French sent in some 60,000 troops, most of them Senegalese and Algerian. They were driven out in April 1919.

5 The famous Odessa Swap Meet (Tolkuchy rynok) was once situated on Prokhorovskaya Square.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.