TY - BOOK AU - Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov TI - The White Guard SN - 9780099490661 AV - PG3476.B78 U1 - 891.7342 PB - Vintage Books KW - Historical Fiction N2 - Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, "The White Guard" takes place in Kiev, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks, Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins, a once-wealthy Russian family, as they are forced to come to terms with revolution and a new regime ER -