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: 9780300110920

ISBN-10: 0300110928

ISBN-13: 9780300110920

Edition: 2006

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 cafe called Ziemianska." Thus begins the history of a generation of Polish literati born at the "fin de siecle," They sat in Cafe Ziemianska and believed that the world moved on what they said there. "Caviar and Ashes" tells 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 generation's coming of age after the First World War and…

Book details

List price: $67.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 4/10/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Marci Shoreis assistant professor of history at Yale University.



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Cast of Characters


Introduction: When God Died



Once upon a Time, in a Cafe Called Ziemianska



Love and Revolution



A Visit from Mayakovsky



A Funeral for Futurism



Entanglements, Terror, and the Fine Art of Confession



Autumn in Soviet Galicia



Into the Abyss



Stalinism amidst Warsaw's Ruins



Ice Melting



The End of the Affair


Epilogue


Conclusion: Does History Go On?


Notes


Index