Book · 1926 · Fiction

The White Guard

Vintage (Penguin Random House) · 304 pages
★ 6.3 editorial score

Kyiv, winter 1918: three Turbin siblings hold their apartment while the government falls and Ukrainian nationalists seize the city. Bulgakov's doomed White officers so charmed Stalin he saw the stage version fifteen times.

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1926Depicts Russian RevolutionDepicts 1910s