The Red Commissar

Name: The Red Commissar
Author: Jaroslav Hasek

by Jaroslav Hasek

Short story about a revolutionary commissar navigating Soviet politics and ideology

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Jaroslav Hasek

Czech author and satirist best known for The Good Soldier Svejk, an unfinished comic novel that became one of the most widely read Central European works of the 20th century. His anarchic humor mocked military bureaucracy and nationalism.

More by Jaroslav Hasek

The Good Soldier SvejkComic novel of a bumbling, obedient soldier stumbling through military bureaucracy
The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier SvejkExtended comic novel of a soldier's absurd misadventures during World War I
The Tourist GuideSatirical short story mocking tourist guidebooks and cultural misrepresentation
Bugulma and Other StoriesCollection of short stories set in Siberian town capturing post-revolutionary Soviet life