Red Cavalry, By Isaac Babel (1926)

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Wendell Steavenson, On Reporters Who Took Sides. Wall Street Journal, Aug 30, 2015 (in a column “Five Best: A Personal Choice” where a different writer hosts every Saturday).
http://www.wsj.com/articles/wendell-steavenson-1440795
(“As a young reporter, Babel rode with the Red cavalry against the Whites in the Russian civil war in 1920. He wrote propaganda for a Bolshevik paper packed with exhortations—’Beat them, Red Fighters! Clobber them to death, if it is the last thing you do! Right away! This minute! Now!’ But he also kept a diary that records his disillusion. ‘They all say they’re fighting for justice and they all loot,’ he noted”)

My comment:
(a) Read only the third item: “Red Cavalry  By Isaac Babel (1926).”

The book was published in Russian in 1926. Its English translations (by different translators) are Norton 2003, Penguin 2006, and Pushkin 2014.
(b) Isaac Babel (author), Carol J Avins (editor),and HT Willetts (translator), 1920 Diary. Yale University Press, 2002.
(c) Isaac Babel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Babel
(1894-1940; born in Odessa, executed by a firing squad in Moscow; Jewish; section 4 Red Cavalry)
(d) Russo-Polish War (1919-1920)
www.britannica.com/event/Russo-Polish-War-1919-1920