Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel

1894-1940

Isaac Babel and His Father circa 1902

Isaac Babel circa 1908

Isaac Babel in 1921

Babel in a caricature by Boris Efimov (1932)

Isaac Babel, André Malraux, Maksim Gorky, 1934

Isaac Babel and Sergey Eisenstein in 1936

The NKVD mug shot of Babel at the time of his arrest. 1940.

Red Cavalry1926

Kazimir Malevich. Red Cavalry. 1928-32

Map of Poland circa 1920

Area in the middle covers the battleground described in Red Cavalry IsaacBabel, 1920 Diary.Carol J. Avins, tr., ed., annot. (Yale UP, 1995)

Approximate Route of the Red Cavalry

From: IsaacBabel, 1920 Diary.Carol J. Avins, tr., ed., annot. (Yale UP, 1995)

Literary-Instructional Agit-Train, “October Revolution” (1919)

Agit-Train of the Southern Region. 1920.

Red Cavalry Charge

Red Cavalry Generals, Semyon Budennyi and Kliment Voroshilov Greeting Red Cavalry Troops

Throwing Leaflets from an Agit Train

A Civil War Cartoon