The White Guard

Kiev - Kyiv - is in chaos. Russia has withdrawn from World War I but the Germans have set up a puppet government in Ukraine. Civil war rages: the Bolsheviks have seized power in Russia, but the anti-revolutionary White Guard who have fled to Ukraine, are rallying to resist. In the meantime, Ukrainian nationalists are camped outside the capital, and a Red army is on its way to bring everyone to heel. While all this is going on, the Turbin family try to eke out their existence in Kyiv and discuss what they should do. They are exactly the sort of family - monarchist intelligentsia - for whom the future looks particularly menacing. Bulgakov''s brilliant and evocative prose brings the city and the moment unforgettably to life and sheds some fascinating light on the complex interwoven histories of Ukraine and Russia.

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Mikhail Bulgakov, Bulgakov Mikhail
• Assisted by: Orlando Figes (Introduction), Figes Orlando (Introduction), Michael Glenny (Translation), Glenny Michael (Translation)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.2023
• EAN: 9781841594217
• ISBN: 978-1-84159-421-7
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 212 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS; Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Ukraine, FICTION / War & Military, Historical fiction, Russia, c 1910 to c 1919, Civil wars, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Kyiv (Kiev), dutch; pulp; ancient; rome; wwii