{"product_id":"diary-1954-leopold-tyrmand-9780810129511","title":"Diary 1954","description":"Leopold Tyrmand, a Polish Jew who survived World War II by working in Germany under a false identity, would go on to live and write under Poland's Communist regime for twenty years before emigrating to the West, where he continued to express his deeply felt anti-Communist views. \u003ci\u003eDiary 1954\u003c\/i\u003e--written after the independent weekly paper that employed him was closed for refusing to mourn Stalin's death--is an account of daily life in Communist Poland. Like Czeslaw Milosz, V當lav Havel, and other dissidents who described the absurdities of Soviet-backed regimes, Tyrmand exposes the lies--big and small--that the regimes employed to stay in power. Witty and insightful, Tyrmand's diary is the chronicle of a man who uses seemingly minor modes of resistance--as a provocative journalist, a Warsaw intellectual, the \"spiritual father\" of Polish hipsters, and a promoter of jazz in Poland--to maintain his freedom of thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leopold Tyrmand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810129515\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810129511\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.09w x 1.11d","brand":"Leopold Tyrmand","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926328770815,"sku":"9780810129511","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_be29f4e4-7cbf-49cf-9dd8-60531e34986f.jpg?v=1681082463","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/diary-1954-leopold-tyrmand-9780810129511","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}