Part of the AATSEEL Critical Companions series, on Red Cavalry, Isaac Babel's classic series of short stories about his time with the Cossacks during the Soviet-Polish war of 1920.

Charles Rougle, Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies

Charles Rougle (University of Stockholm, 1977) was born and raised in Helena, Montana, whose high school was among the first 13 in the nation to offer Russian. He is the editor of a book on Isaak Babel and has published numerous scholarly articles on Soviet literature and cultural politics. In addition to Russian he speaks fluent Swedish and Finnish and reads Spanish, French, German, Polish and Ukrainian. At UAlbany he has taught courses in Russian language, literature and civilization, and translation. He has worked as a freelance translator since 1970 and has translated to date 43 books from Russian and Swedish, most of which deal with Russian literature and culture. His translation of Ilia Dorontchenkov (ed.), Russian and Soviet Views of Modern Western Art, 1900-1934 is forthcoming with the University of California at Berkeley in 2008.