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A review by arquero
Окаянные дни by Ivan Bunin, Иван Алексеевич Бунин
3.0
This book is an anti-revolutionary bible. A must-read for all the hotheads out there trying to improve the world through destruction and chaos. It struck me particularly, as I had the misfortune to compare the abyss of the Russian revolution with the postrevolutionary developments in Armenia.
There's hatred and disunity inside the society, people wish the country to parish only to revenge each other, media is flooded with fake news of foreign intervention, unjustified wartime promises, extreme hate speech against any opposition immediately labeled as counter-revolutionary, rumors of betrayal of officials and commanders, covering up the losses, failures, and mismanagement... The parallels go really far.
The edition I read had also some additional text. The diary called "Under the hammer and sickle" seemed to be made-up since it spoke of later events that Bunin could not have experienced himself, given that he had fled the country. I didn't find it genuine enough. There were memoirs of random war-time communist celebrities, namely Yesenin, Mayakovski, Bryusov, Blok, Gorki et alii. The recensions were always negative and sour. This bitterness is understandable, surely I don't necessarily agree with Bunin, but I generally like critical reviews.
There's hatred and disunity inside the society, people wish the country to parish only to revenge each other, media is flooded with fake news of foreign intervention, unjustified wartime promises, extreme hate speech against any opposition immediately labeled as counter-revolutionary, rumors of betrayal of officials and commanders, covering up the losses, failures, and mismanagement... The parallels go really far.
The edition I read had also some additional text. The diary called "Under the hammer and sickle" seemed to be made-up since it spoke of later events that Bunin could not have experienced himself, given that he had fled the country. I didn't find it genuine enough. There were memoirs of random war-time communist celebrities, namely Yesenin, Mayakovski, Bryusov, Blok, Gorki et alii. The recensions were always negative and sour. This bitterness is understandable, surely I don't necessarily agree with Bunin, but I generally like critical reviews.