Caviar and Ashes A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968

Name: Caviar and Ashes A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968
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ISBN: 9780300143287

ISBN-10: 0300143281

ISBN-13: 9780300143287

Edition: 2009

Authors: Marci Shore

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"In the elegant capital city of Warsaw, the editor Mieczyslaw Grydzewski would come with his two dachshunds to a caf'233; called Ziemianska." Thus begins the history of a generation of Polish literati born at thefin de si'232;cle. They sat in Caf'233; Ziemianska and believed that the world moved on what they said there.Caviar and Ashestells the story of the young avant-gardists of the early 1920s who became the radical Marxists of the late 1920s. They made the choice for Marxism before Stalinism, before socialist realism, before Marxism meant the imposition of Soviet communism in Poland. It ended tragically. Marci Shore begins with this generation7;s coming of age after the First World War…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 1/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 7.48" wide x 9.13" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Marci Shoreis assistant professor of history at Yale University.