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Odessa : genius and death in a city of dreams
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- Creator
- Charles King
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780393070842, 0393070840
- OCLC
- ocn601107866
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-323) and index.
- Pt. 1. City of dreams -- ch. 1. The sinister shore -- ch. 2. Potemkin and the mercenaries -- ch. 3. Beacon -- ch. 4. The governor and the poet -- ch. 5. "There is nothing national about Odessa" -- pt. 2. The habitations of cruelty -- ch. 6. Schemes and shadows -- ch. 7. Blood and vengeance -- ch. 8. New world -- ch. 9. The fields of Transnistria --ch. 10. "I would like to bring to your attention the following" -- pt. 3. Nostalgia and remembrance -- ch. 11. Hero city -- ch. 12. Twilight -- Chronology
Subjects
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
- Social change -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
- Cultural pluralism -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
- Cosmopolitanism -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
- Genius -- Social aspects -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
- Cruelty -- Social aspects -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
- Death -- Social aspects -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
- Odesa (Ukraine) -- History.
- Odesa (Ukraine) -- Social conditions.
- Odesa (Ukraine) -- Biography.