Cataclysms: A History of the Twentieth Century from Europeas Edge

by Dan Diner

Cataclysms is a profoundly original look at the last century. Approaching twentieth-century history from the periphery rather than the centers of decision-making, the virtual narrator sits perched on the legendary stairs of Odessa and watches as events between the Baltic and the Aegean pass in review, unfolding in space and time between 1917 and 1989, while evoking the nineteenth century as an interpretative backdrop.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299223507
• ISBN13: 9780299223502
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"