Red Cavalry by Babel

Show Notes: 

This week, Matt and Cameron will be delving into a few short stories from the collection Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel. Babel was an early Soviet writer who covered the Polish-Soviet 1920 war as a journalist and would later use these experiences as the basis for this very story collection. If you’re interested in getting a first-person look into what exactly the various conflicts across the crumbling Russian empire, Babel is absolutely a great introduction. 

Major themes: Bolshevism, Buyer’s Remorse, The Russian Civil War, Cossacks, Socratic Debate. 

05:07 - Actually it was 14 years later in 1954. 

5:39 - To continue to our third story, Gedali, go to 35:40 

11:00 - Cossacks are a broad-ranging group comprised of a number of Tartar-descended groups (sometimes including other Slavic groups), which settled across Russia, with traditions distinct from ethnic Russians.

The music used in this episode was “soviet march,” by Toasted Tomatoes. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. 

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