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Red star over the Black sea : Nazim Hikmet and his generation / James H. Meyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meyer, James H., 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nâzım Hikmet, 1902-1963.
- Nâzım Hikmet.
- Autobiography.
- Turkey--History--20th century--Biography.
- Turkey.
- Turkey--Politics and government--1918-1960.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (388 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- Nâzım Hikmet is Turkey's best-known poet and one of their most recognizable historical figures. James H. Meyer situates Nâzim's fascinating international life story within the context of his border-crossing generation of Turkish communist contemporaries, addressing changing attitudes in the 20th century toward borders and the people who cross them.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Red Star over the Black Sea: Nâzım Hikmet and his Generation
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Illustrations and Maps
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Abbreviations
- Archives and Sources
- Archival Citations
- Notes on Transliteration and Names
- Epigraphs
- Prologue: Tears of Joy
- Introduction: The Border-Crosser
- Biographies of Nâzım
- Sources and Voices
- Border-Crossers
- From Empire to Republic
- Communist Internationals
- 1: Child of the Imperial Borderlands
- A Trans-Imperial Family
- Socialists and Young Turks
- Turkists and Pan-Turkists
- The Formation of a Young Poet
- Poetry under Occupation
- 2: On the Road to Ankara
- Sudden Salvation
- Scrambling for POWs
- In Occupied Istanbul
- Mustafa Suphi: From Pan-Turkism to the TKP
- Mission to Constantinople
- Escape to Anatolia
- Walking in the Wind
- 3: Up for Grabs in Anatolia
- Searching for Second Chances
- The Bolshevik Eastern Strategy
- Mustafa Suphi's Last Ride
- Ankara Circles
- Starting Out in Bolu
- Drifting Eastward
- Batumi Bound
- Farewell to Anatolia
- 4: First Soviet Steps
- From Batumi to Tbilisi
- Another Shift in the Wind
- A Search for Embeddedness
- Making a "Social Family"
- Destination Moscow
- 5: In Revolutionary Russia
- Early Days in the Bolshevik Capital
- Camp Life
- Communist University
- Children of Trans-Empire
- Faces Around Campus
- Friends, Kinsmen, and Lovers
- Seizing the Future
- 6: Moscow-Istanbul-Moscow-Istanbul
- Returning to a New Land
- Navigating Turkey
- New Voices for New Readers
- The Second Stint
- The Opposition
- Back to the Future
- Exit Strategies
- 7: At Large in Istanbul
- Back "Home"
- Party Trouble
- Meet the Sertels
- Trashing the Idols
- Early Trials
- Letters to Piraye
- A Star is Born
- 8: Closing Doors
- Tightening the Screws.
- Back in the Arena
- The View from Moscow
- Marat's Return
- Last Man Standing
- Purging the Ranks
- Mara &
- Sasha
- Rehabilitating the Prodigal Son
- A Tale of Two Futurists
- 9: Descending into Darkness
- The Example
- Behind Bars
- Scandal in the Comintern
- Coming to Terms
- The Empire Builder
- Blood from a Stone
- 10: Desperate Measures
- Turkey and the Cold War
- Gasping for Air
- The International Cause Célèbre
- Suspicious Minds
- Out of Jail
- 11: In Stalin's USSR
- Twelve Days in Romania
- Early Days in Moscow
- Speaking Stalinist
- Reunion with Bilen
- The Berlin Diaries
- Other People's Doors
- Raising Red Flags
- Turks Across the Danube
- Socialist Unrealism
- 12: A Kind of Freedom
- Living the Soviet Dream
- Budapest Radio
- Cigarettes and Radio Monte Carlo
- Transitions and Revolutions
- Letters to Nâzım
- The Narrative of Exile
- 13: Final Frontiers
- Radio Days
- The End of Something
- Rebuilding the Party
- Another Crossing
- A New Chapter
- Settling Accounts
- Late-LifeNarratives
- One More Border to Cross
- Epilogue: Afterlives
- Life after Nâzım
- Grumpy Old Communists
- Reconstructing the Idols
- A Generation of Border-Crossers
- Bibliography
- Archival and Manuscript Material
- Newspapers and Journals
- Books by Nâzim Hikmet in Turkish and English
- Published Sources and Dissertations
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Meyer, James H. Red Star over the Black Sea
- ISBN:
- 9780191967504
- 0191967505
- 9780192698964
- 0192698966
- 9780192698957
- 0192698958
- OCLC:
- 1373348173
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