Sketches from a secret war : a Polish artist's mission to liberate Soviet Ukraine
"The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a Cubist painter in his native Kyiv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him to different roles - intelligence operative, powerful statesman, underground activist, lifelong conspirator. Henryk Jozewski directed...
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New Haven : Yale University Press,
2005
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| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (374 pages) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Prologue : interrogations
- Introduction : cubism and conspiracy
- pt. 1. An artful ascent
- 1. Matters of trust
- 2. Promethean Ukraine
- 3. Theaters of politics
- 4. Spies of winter
- pt. 2. A political descent
- 5. Stalin's famine
- 6. The Polish terror
- 7. A revolution prepared
- 8. Revindications of souls
- pt. 3. The local world war
- 9. Glass houses
- 10. Nazi occupation
- 11. Conspiring women
- 12. Communist prison
- Epilogue : representations.