# The White Guard

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- Book: [The White Guard](https://www.bookquiver.com/mikhail-bulgakov/the-white-guard) ([The White Guard.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mikhail-bulgakov/the-white-guard.md))
- Authors: [Michail Bulgakov](https://www.bookquiver.com/mikhail-bulgakov)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9949-066-1
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2010-01-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, The White Guard takes place in Kiev, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks, Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins, a once-wealthy Russian family, as they are forced to come to terms with revolution and a new regime.