Devět let po bolševické revoluci
Nine years after the Bolshevik revolution

Summary/Abstract: Roth, Joseph: Cesta do Ruska: Fejetony, reportáže, poznámky v deníku 1919–1930. Translated from the German original by Pavel Váňa. (Library of the 20th Century, vol. 1.) Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2017, 264 pp., ISBN 978-80-7325-422-3. The publication "Travel in Russia: Columns, Reports, Diary Entries 1919–1930" is a translation of the German original "Reise nach Rußland: Feuilletons, Reportagen, Tagebuchnotizen 1919–1930" (Köln/R., Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1995) and contains a selection of newspaper articles of Austrian writer Joseph Roth (1894–1939) dedicated to events in Central and Eastern Europe shortly after the Great War, and inparticular his news reports from the Soviet Union, published in the Frankfurter Zeitung daily from September 1926 to January 1927 and supplemented by diary entries reflecting his stay in the Soviet Union. Roth was sent there as a reporter of the abovementioned German paper and although he made no secret of his sympathies to the left, he tried to describe the Soviet reality impartially. Roth’s newspaper texts, whose language and style are as cultivated as those of his literary works, are, in the reviewer’s opinion, one of the most colourful literary testimonies about the early period of the Soviet Union.

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