{"product_id":"caviar-and-ashes-marci-shore-9780300143287","title":"Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968","description":"\"In the elegant capital city of Warsaw, the editor Mieczyslaw Grydzewski would come with his two dachshunds to a café called Ziemianska.\" Thus begins the history of a generation of Polish literati born at the \u003ci\u003efin de siècle\u003c\/i\u003e. They sat in Café Ziemianska and believed that the world moved on what they said there. \u003ci\u003eCaviar and Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eMarci Shore begins with this generation's coming of age after the First World War and narrates a half-century-long journey through futurist manifestos and proletarian poetry, Stalinist terror and Nazi genocide, a journey from the literary cafés to the cells of prisons and the corridors of power. Using newly available archival materials from Poland and Russia, as well as from Ukraine and Israel, Shore explores what it meant to live Marxism as a European, an East European, and a Jewish intellectual in the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marci Shore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300143281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300143287\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.30d","brand":"Marci Shore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946403332351,"sku":"9780300143287","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_96c5c458-5769-4a69-a0e5-53dcfa5b56e0.jpg?v=1681512949","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/caviar-and-ashes-marci-shore-9780300143287","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}