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Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (Odessa, Russian Empire, July 13, 1894 - Moscow, USSR, January 27, 1940) was a Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin. Despite being an idealistic advocate of Marxism and Leninism, he was arrested, tortured, and executed during Stalin's Great Purge. Before his arrest in May 1939, Babel had written several extraordinary sequences of short stories over 25 years, comparable to the best works of Gogol and Maupassant, whom he admired as masters. "Red Cavalry" (1926) is his most famous collection of stories, along with "Tales of Odessa" and "Selected Stories of Isaac Babel."