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  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409079392
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

The White Guard




'The tumultuous atmospher of the Ukranian revolution and civil war is brilliantly evoked' Daily Telegraph

Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, The White Guard takes place in Kiev, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks, Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins, a once-wealthy Russian family, as they are forced to come to terms with revolution and a new regime.

  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409079392
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

About the author

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian, later Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century

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Praise for The White Guard

The White Guard captures the tumult, madness and confusion of revolution

Independent

A powerful reverie...the city is so vivid to the eye that it is the real hero of the book.

New Statesman

One of those few emancipated Soviet writers who firmly believe-and still believe-that to create is to choose

Saturday Review

Worth reading in any language

Library Journal