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17.1923. Dated Brody, August 1920.

See also 1920 Diary entries for August 18 and 31.

THE TACHANKA THEORY

Original title: “Ucheniye o tachanke.” First published in Izvestiya Odesskovo Gubispolkoma, February 23,1923.

DOLGUSHOV’S DEATH

Original title: “Smert Dolgusheva” First published in Izvestiya Odesskovo Gubispolkoma, May 1, 1923. Dated Brody, August 1920.

Korotchayev: Was demoted by General Budyonny from provisional commander of the Fourth Cavalry Division to one of the brigade commanders of the Sixth Cavalry Division. See also 1920 Diary entries for August 2, 8, and 13.

THE COMMANDER OF THE SECOND BRIGADE

First published in Lef4,1923. Babel changed the original tide “Kolesnikov ’ to “Kombrig 2” (“The Commander of the Second Brigade”). Dated Brody, August 1920.

See also 1920 Diary entry for August 3, in which Budyonny threatens to shoot Kolesnikov and Grishin. In the original edition of this story in Lef, Babel had used Grishins name, which in later editions Babel changed to Almazov.

SASHKA CHRIST

Original title: “Sashka Khristos” First published in Krasnaya nov 1, 1924.

See also 1920 Diary entry for July 28.

THE LIFE OF MATVEY RODIONOVICH PAVLICHENKO

Original title: “Zhiznyeopisaniye Pavlichenki, Matveya Rodionicha.” First published in

Shkval 8,1924.

Matvey Rodionovich Pavlichenko: the altered name of Iosif Rodionovich Apanasenko, 1890-1943, who took over the command of the Sixth Cavalry Division in August 1920. Mentioned throughout the 1920 Diary, particularly the entries for August 5, 8-13. See also Sketches for the Red Cavalry Stories, “Apanasenkos Life Story” (p. 482).

THE CEMETERY IN KOZIN

Original title: “Kladbishche v Kozine.” First published in Izvestiya Odesskovo Gubispolkoma, February 23,1923.

See also 1920 Diary entries for July 18 and 21.

PRISHCHEPA

Original title: “Prishchepa.” First published in Izvestiya Odesskovo Gubispolkoma, June

17,1923. Dated Demidovka, July 1920.

See also 1920 Diary entries for July 23,24. See also the two sections on Demidovka in Sketches for the Red Cavalry Stories (pp. 482-84).

THE STORY OF A HORSE

First published in Izvestiya Odesskovo Gubispolkoma, April 13,1923. Babel changed the original title “Timoshenko i Melnikov ’ (“Timoshenko and Melnikov”) to “Istoriya odnoi loshadT (“The Story of a Horse”) in later editions. Dated Radzivillov, July 1920. The story was republished in Krasnaya nov 3,1924.

In a letter to the editor, Parfenti Melnikov denied that he had ever written a letter renouncing his membership in the Communist Party. Babel wrote an apology, published in the literary magazine Oktyabr. See “A Letter to the Editor,” (p. 362).

KONKIN

Original title: “Konkin.” First published in Krasnaya nov 3,1924. Dated Dubno, August 1920.

See also 1920 Diary entry for July 13.

BERESTECHKO

Original title: “BerestechkoFirst published in Krasnaya nov 3, 1924. Dated Berestechko, August 1920.

See also 1920 Diary entries for August 7 and 8.

SALT

Original title: “Sol” First published in Izvestiya Odesskovo Gubispolkoma, November 25, 1923.

EVENING

First published in Krasnaya nov 3. Babel changed the original title “Galin to “Vecher” (“Evening”) in later editions. Dated Kovel, 1920.

See also 1920 Diary entries for September 10 and 11.

AFONKA BIDA

Original title: “Afonka Bida.” First published in Krasnaya nov 1,1924.

See also 1920 Diary entry for August 1.    ,

AT SAINT VALENTINE’S

Original title: “U Svyatogo ValentinaFirst published in Krasnaya nov 3, 1924. Dated Berestechko, August 1920.

See also 1920 Diary entry for August 7.

SQUADRON COMMANDER TRUNOV

Original title:
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Eskadronnii Trunov.” First published in Krasnaya nov 2, 1925.

See also “And Then There Were Nine,” “And Then There Were Ten,” and the 1920 Diary entry for August 30. See also “Sokal 1” and “Sokal 2” in Sketches for the Red Cavalry Stories (pp. 478-79).

IVAN AND IVAN

Original title: “Ivany.” First published in Russkii Sovremenik 1,1924.

See also 1920 Diary entry for August 3.

A CONTINUATION OF THE STORY OF A HORSE

First published in Krasnaya nov 3, 1924 as part of the story “Timoshenko i Melnikov ’ (“Timoshenko and Melnikov”), which Babel changed to
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Prodolzhenie istorii odnoi loshadi (“A Continuation of the Story of a Horse”) in later editions.

THE WIDOW

First published in Izvestiya Odesskovo Gubispolkoma 15, 1923. Babel changed the original title “Shevelyov” to “ Vdova ’ (“The Widow”) in later editions.

See also 1920 Diary entry for August 9.

ZAMOSC

Original title: “Zamostye.” First published in Krasnaya nov 3, 1924. Dated Sokal, September 1920.

See also 1920 Diary entries for August 29 and 30.

TREASON

Original title: “IzmenaFirst published in Izvestiya Odesskovo Gubispolkoma, March 20, 1923.

CZESNIKI

Original title: “Chesniku First published in Krasnaya nov 3,1924.

See also 1920 Diary entries for August 28-31.

AFTER THE BATTLE

Original title: “Posle boy a.” First published in Prozhektor 20, 1924. Dated Galicia, September 1920.

See also 1920 Diary entry for August 31.

THE SONG

First published in Krasnaya nov 3, 1925. Babel changed the original title “Vecher” (“Evening”) to “Pesnya (“The Song”). Dated Sokal, August 1920.

THE RABBI’S SON

Original title: Syn Rabbi. First published in Krasnaya nov 1,1924.

See also 1920 Diary entry for September 12.

IV. The Red Cavalry Cycle:

Additional Stories

Makhno’s Boys

Original title: “Ubatko nashego Makhno.” First published in Krasnaya nov 4,1924, dated 1923.

A HARDWORKING WOMAN

Original title: “Staratelnaya zhenshchina.” First published in Pereval 6, 1926.

See also 1920 Diary entry for July 16.

GRISHCHUK

Original title: “Grishchuk.” First published in Izvestiya Odesskovo Gubispolkoma, February 23,1923, subtitled “From the Red Cavalrydated July 16,1920.

See also 1920 Diary entries for July 14,19, and 21-29.

ARGAMAK

Original title: “Agarmak.” First published in Novii mir 3, 1932, subtitled “An Unpublished Chapter of the Red Cavalrydated 1924-1930.

THE KISS

Original title: “Potseluu First published in Krasnaya nov 7,1937 AND THEN THERE WERE NINE

Original tide: “Ikh bylo devyatP First published in Novii Zhurnal 95, New York, June 1969.

See also “And Then There Were Ten,” “Squadron Commander Trunov,” and the 1920 Diary entry for August 30.

AND THEN THERE WERE TEN

Original title: “Ikh bylo desyat.” First published in Petersburg 1918
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1989, Michigan, Ardis Publishers.

A LETTER TO THE EDITOR First published in Oktyabr 4,1924.

V. The Red Cavalryman: Articles

WHAT WE NEED IS MORE MEN LIKE TRUNOV!

Original title:
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Pobolshe takikh TrunovikhP First published in Krasnii kavalerist, August

13,1920, signed “War correspondent for the Sixth Cavalry Division, K. Lyutov.”

THE KNIGHTS OF CIVILIZATION

Original title: “Ritsari tsivilizatsii.” First published in Krasnii kavalerist, August 14, 1920, signed K.L.

See also 1920 Diary entry for August 8.

DISPATCH OFFICE, SHAPE UP!

Original title: “Ekspeditsiyapodtyanis? First published in Krasnii kavalerist, September

11,1920.

MURDERERS WHO HAVE YET TO BE CLUBBED TO DEATH

Original title: “Nedobitiye ubiitsy.” First published in Krasnii kavalerist, September 17,

1920, signed “War correspondent for the Sixth Cavalry Division, K. Lyutov.”

HER DAY

Original title: “Yeyo den.” First published in Krasnii kavalerist, September 18, 1920, signed K. Lyutov.

See also 1920 Diary entry for August 3.

VI. 1920 Diary

First full publication in Isaak Babel: Sochineniya v dvukh tomakh, Moscow 1990.

JUNE 3

“Love in the kitchen”: see the Red Cavalry story “Evening.”

“The Bazaar in Zhitomir”: see the Red Cavalry stories “Gedali” and “The Rabbi’s Son.”

JULY 13

Dyakov: see the Red Cavalry story “The Reserve Cavalry Commander.”

JULY 14

Grishchuk: see the Red Cavalry stories “The Tachanka Theory” and “Dolgushov’s Death.”

Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko: Appears as Savitsky in the Red Cavalry stories “My First Goose,” “The Commander of the Second Brigade,” “The Story of a Horse,” and “The Continuation of the Story of a Horse.”

JULY 16

“A terrible incident, soldiers’ love”: see “A Hardworking Woman” from the Red Cavalry Cycle.

“If it gets up, then it’s a horse”: see the Red Cavalry story “The Reserve Cavalry Commander,” and “Grishchuk” from The Red Cavalry Cycle.

JULY 18

“The Jewish cemetery outside Malin”: see the Red Cavalry story “The Cemetery in Kozin.”

JULY 19

Nikolai Petrovich Kolesov (also referred to as Kolesnikov in the diary entries for August 3,13, and 18, and in the Sketches for the Red Cavalry Stories) appears as Kolesnikov in the Red Cavalry story “The Commander of the Second Brigade.”

JULY 21

“A cemetery, the destroyed house of Rabbi Azrail”: see the Red Cavalry story “The Cemetery in Kozin.”

JULY 23

Prishchepa: See the Red Cavalry story “Prishchepa” and the two sections on Demidovka in Sketches for the Red Cavalry Stories (pp. 482-84).

JULY 24

“My tale about the Chinese”: Babels friend Viktor Shklovsky wrote in an essay volume (Gamburgsky shchet, 1928) that throughout 1919 Babel “talked of nothing but two Chinese men in a brothel.” See also the story “Chink” (p. 112).

AUGUST 1

“Our infantry is in the trenches”: See the Red Cavalry story “Afonka Bida.”

AUGUST 2

Korotchayev: See the Red Cavalry story “Dolgushovs Death.”

AUGUST 3

“Budyonny to Kolesnikov and Grishin: Til shoot you!’ ”—see the Red Cavalry story “The Commander of the Second Brigade.”

AUGUST 4

“We have a new division commander, Apanasenko”—appears in the Red Cavalry stories as Pavlichenko. See “A Letter,” “The Life of Matvey Rodionovich Pavlichenko,” and “Czesniki.”

AUGUST 7

“The looting of the church”: See also the Red Cavalry story “At Saint Valentine s.”

“Notrepetit hews acheve 7 semaines”: See also the Red Cavalry story “Berestechko.”

AUGUST 8

“Scorched the pharmacists body with white-hot iron pokers”: See the 1920 Diary entry for August 8.

AUGUST 9

“The tale of how he whipped his neighbor Stepan”: See the Red Cavalry story “The Letter.”

“Shurkas lover is heavily wounded”: See the Red Cavalry story “The Widow.” Alexander Nikolayevich Vinokurov: Appears as Vinogradov in the Red Cavalry stories “Berestechko” and “After the Battle.”

AUGUST 11

“Must write . .. the life story of Apanasenko”: See the Red Cavalry story: “The Life of Matvey Rodionovich Pavlichenko.”

AUGUST 18

“Interrogation of prisoners”: See stories “Squadron Commander Trunov,” “And Then There Were Nine,” and “And Then There Were Ten.”

“Smashed, smoked-out beehives”: See “The Road to Brody.”

AUGUST 30

“And then there were nine”: See stories “Squadron Commander Trunov,” “And Then There Were Nine,” and “And Then There Were Ten.”

AUGUST 31

Captain Yakovlev: See “The Widow,” “After the Battle,” “Murderers Who Have Yet to Be Clubbed to Death.”

SEPTEMBER 12

“Panic at the train station”: See “The Rabbi’s Son.”

“The nurse’s story”: See “After the Battle.”

VII. Sketches for the Red Cavalry Stories First published in Literaturnoe Nasledstvo 74,1965.

VIII. Reports From Petersburg, 1918

FIRST AID

Original title: “Pervaya pomoshch.” First published in Novaya zhizn, March 9, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”

HORSES

Original title: “O loshadyakh.” First published in Novaya zhizn,, March 16,1918, under the heading “Diary,” and signed I.B.

PREMATURE BABIES

Original title: “Nedonosku First published in Novaya zhizn, March 26,1918, under the heading “Diary.”

THE DEAD

Original title: “Bitye.” First published in Novaya zhizn, March 29, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”

THE PALACE OF MOTHERHOOD

Original title: “Dvorets materinstva.” First published in Novaya zhizn, March 31,1918, under the heading “Diary.”

EVACUEES

Original title: “Evakuirovanniye.” First published in Novaya zhizn,, April 13, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”

MOSAIC

Original title: “Mozaika.” First published in Novaya zhizn, April 21, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”

QUITE AN INSTITUTION

Original title: Zavedenitse. First published in Novaya zhizn, April 25, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”

THE GEORGIAN, THE KERENSKY RUBLES, AND THE GENERAL’S DAUGHTER (A MODERN TALE)

Original title: “O gruzinye, kerenkye, igeneralskoi doche.” First published in Novaya zhizn, May 4,1918.

THE BLIND

Original title: “SlepiyeFirst published in Novaya zhizn, May 19, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”

THE EVENING

Original title: “ Vecher.” First published in Novaya zhizn, May 21,1918, under the heading “Diary.”

I WAS STANDING AT THE BACK

Original title: “Ya zadnim stoyal” First published in Novaya zhizn, June 7,1918, under the heading “Petersburg Diary.”

A BEAST CAN’T TALK

Original title: “Zver molchit.” First published in Novaya zhizn, June 9,1918, under the heading “Diary.”

FINNS

Original title: “Finny.” First published in Novaya zhizn, June 11,1918, under the heading “Diary.”

A NEW LIFE

Original title: “Novii byt.” First published in Novaya zhizn, June 20, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”

AN INCIDENT ON THE NEVSKY PROSPEKT

Original title: “Sluchai na Nevskom.” First published in Novaya zhizn, June 27, 1918, under the heading “Diary.”