In Defiance
Author: Kedra Mitrei
Read “In Defiance” by Kedra Mitrei in Udmurt, Russian and English in Bibliott on your phone and tablet.
Languages: Udmurt, RU, English
Genre: Fiction, Historical, Literary, Short story
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Former farmhand Natal moves into the dispossessed Chuboy Ivan’s house, and the kulak turns up all smiles, offering to swap tables.
Characters
- Natal — Former farmhand: Huddles with her six-month-old daughter by the cold door of the kulak’s confiscated house.
- Pichi Mikal — Village-soviet member: Once a hired hand, he now levies a tax of exactly 374 rubles and 37 kopecks on Chuboy Ivan.
- Chuboy Ivan — Kulak and former village headman: Turned out of his own house, he mixes his seed barley with snow and pours it into the village granary.
- Malan — Natal’s housemate: The collective-farm chairman’s daughter, she has the warm spot by the stove that Natal envies.