Caviar and ashes a Warsaw generation's life and death in Marxism, 1918-1968

"In the elegant capital city of Warsaw, the editor Mieczyslaw Grydzewski would come with his two dachshunds to a cafe; called Ziemianska." Thus begins the history of a generation of Polish literati born at the fin de siècle. They sat in Cafe; Ziemianska and believed that the world moved on...

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Autor principal: Shore, Marci (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press 2006
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Cast of Characters
  • Introduction: When God Died . . .
  • Chapter One: Once upon a Time, in a Café Called Ziemianska
  • Chapter Two: Love and Revolution
  • Chapter Three: A Visit from Mayakovsky
  • Chapter Four: A Funeral for Futurism
  • Chapter Five: Entanglements, Terror, and the Fine Art of Confession
  • Chapter Six: Autumn in Soviet Galicia
  • Chapter Seven: Into the Abyss
  • Chapter Eight: Stalinism amidst Warsaw's Ruins
  • Chapter Nine: Ice Melting
  • Chapter Ten: The End of the Affair
  • Epilogue
  • Conclusion: Does History Go On?
  • Notes
  • Index