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Set in post-revolutionary Saint Petersburg, Babel’s nonlinear play follows the Mukovnin family and those around them as war communism disrupts their lives; the absent Maria is an idealistic Communist officer at the front, while her aristocratic relatives confront the new order’s violence and upheaval.
In Odessa’s Jewish quarter, mob boss Benya Krik confronts his philandering father Mendel, whose affair and threat to disinherit his family provoke his sons to violence. The family arranges a dowry for Dvoira and an abortion for Mendel’s pregnant mistress, then celebrates her engagement as if order has been restored.
Set in post-revolutionary Saint Petersburg, Babel’s nonlinear play follows the Mukovnin family and those around them as war communism disrupts their lives; the absent Maria is an idealistic Communist officer at the front, while her aristocratic relatives confront the new order’s violence and upheaval.
In Odessa’s Jewish quarter, mob boss Benya Krik confronts his philandering father Mendel, whose affair and threat to disinherit his family provoke his sons to violence. The family arranges a dowry for Dvoira and an abortion for Mendel’s pregnant mistress, then celebrates her engagement as if order has been restored.