Abstract
This article reads Lunacharskii's play The Liberated Don Quixote and Babel”s Red Cavalry through the lens of Turgenev's article Hamlet and Don Quixote. Both writers appropriated Turgenev's ideas to grapple with issues raised by the revolution and ensuing Civil War and the Russian-Polish War, respectively. The paper shows how, while harkening back to Turgenev's essay, Lunacharskii and Babel' each tailored its basic tenets to fit their own convictions, thus entering into a dialogue both with their predecessor and with each other. When read together, Turgenev's essay and Lunacharskii's play provide a key to unlock yet another hidden chamber of Babel”s enigmatic text that, like no other, captured the internal contradictions of the revolution.
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