Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution

Atlantic Monthly

An admirable job...this book deserves attention.

The Washington Times

Highly readable.

Slavic and East European Journal

Valuable...This is not the typical diary of a famous writer, rather, a memoir of the revolution and civil war that captures the political uncertainty of the period.

Marc Raeff

A harrowing description of the forerunners of the concentration camps and the Gulag.

White

Valuable...This is not the typical diary of a famous writer, rather, a memoir of the revolution and civil war that captures the political uncertainty of the period.
— Slavic and East European Journal

Atlantic Monthly

An admirable job...this book deserves attention.

Washington Times

Highly readable.

Booknews

The first English translation of Bunin's scathing account of the last days of the Russian master in his homeland<-->a work banned during the years of Soviet power. Bunin, one of the last of the gentry tradition of Russian literature, describes his pain and suffering in witnessing the takeover of his country by the Bolsheviks and the chaos of civil war, and his fears for the devastation of patriarchal Russian culture. An introduction and notes are provided by translator Thomas Gaiton Marullo (Russian and Russian Literature, U. of Notre Dame). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Atlantic Monthly

"As both a human document and a historical record, this book deserves attention."