The white guard

Pub Date: 2014-07-29 Pages: 324 Language: English Publisher: Melville House Publishing White Guard. Mikhail Bulgakovs semi-autobiographical first novel. is the story of the Turbin family in Kiev in 1918. Alexei. Elena. and Nikolka Turbin have just lost their mother - their father had died years before -. and find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the Ukraine in the wake of the Russian Revolution In the context of this familys personal loss and the social turmoil surrounding them . Bulgakov creates a brilliant picture of the existential crises brought about by the revolution and the loss of social. moral. and political certainties. He confronts the reader with the bewildering cruelty that ripped Russian life apart at the beginning of the last century as well as with the extraordinary ways in which the Turbins preserved their humanity. In this volum...