Stories From The Ukraine

Edited, with an introduction by G. S. N. LuckyjFive short stories by the leading Soviet Ukrainian who committed suicide in 1933. In 1925 Khvylovy was the risen star of Soviet Ukrainian literature. But when, in the early 1930's, the Party instituted a campaign of terror against the resistance to the collectivization of agriculture in the Ukraine - as well as against Ukrainian culture and literature - Mykola Khvylovy shot himself. The stories freshly translated in this collection show the transformation of the talented revolutionary into an embittered cynic - from the early tales of drama and symbolism to the final savage satires on Soviet officialdom and the Ukrainian Communists.