В житах та інші оповідання (Григорій Косинка)

This article contains the complete text of Hryhorii Kosynka’s book Selected Stories (Kyiv, 1928): twenty-one stories from «В житах», about a young deserter hiding in the rye, to «Оповідання без морали», set in Kyiv in 1919, including «Мати», «За ворітьми», «Анкета», «Політика» and «Циркуль». They show the Ukrainian village in the revolution, the civil war and the hungry early 1920s: insurgents, party organisers, committees of poor peasants, requisitions and drought. Level C1 suits readers who can follow long, image-laden sentences and village speech in Ukrainian. You will learn the rural and political vocabulary of the 1920s and how the spelling of that time differs from today’s.