{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5e8e","title":"The Little Red Christmas Tree","author":"Aleksandr I. Kuprin","code":"the-little-red-christmas-tree","words":1770,"publish_year":1927,"publish_source":"Иллюстрированная Россия (Illustrated Russia)","publish_edition":"No. 52","image":"spruce.jpg","image_alt":"A spruce tree in the snow. Graphite filter.","unique_cover":"A dejected man sitting down","cover_source":"Our World","cover_link":"https://archive.org/details/sim_our-world_1923-12_4_3/page/60/mode/2up","genres":["literary","quirky"],"blurb":"Soon they were reckoned at ten, then five⁠—three⁠—two; and finally in all Soviet Russia there remained just one bourgeois. He was a childless widower, Stepan Nilitch Rybkin, a resident of Malaya Zagvozdka, near Gatchino, formerly proprietor of a grocery and poultry store.","description":"In the future of the 20th century, the Soviet revolution must refrain from eradicating all the bourgeois for fear of ending the revolution by having no one against whom to revolt.","rating":4,"original_language":"Russian","translators":["Malcolm W. Davis"],"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}