Patrick Wright

Iron Curtain

From Stage to Cold War. Sprachen: Englisch. 19,8 cm / 12,9 cm / 2,9 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 540 Seiten
EAN 9780199239689
Veröffentlicht Oktober 2009
Verlag/Hersteller OUP Oxford
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Beschreibung

The story of the most powerful political metaphor of the twentieth century, shattering the conventional assumption that it was coined by Churchill in the 1940s and charting its long and influential history prior to the onset of the Cold War.

Portrait

Patrick Wright is an award-winning poet from Manchester, UK. His poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The North, Gutter, Poetry Salzburg, Agenda, and The London Magazine. His debut pamphlet, Nullaby, was published in 2017 by Eyewear. His debut full-length collection, Full Sight of Her, was published in 2020 by Eyewear and nominated for the John Pollard Prize. He has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and twice included in The Best New British and Irish Poets anthology. He teaches English and Creative Writing at the Open University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Paths Cross on the Jaroslaw Dabrowski
Part I: CARRYING ON IN MISSOURI
1: Bullet's big day
2: In the name of the common people
3: Prophecy and hindsight
Part II: FROM DRURY LANE TO THE THEATRE OF THE WEST (1914-1918)
4: First call
5: Dividing Europe's horizon
6: The Belgian variation
7: In defence of otherness
Part III: WRAPPING RED RUSSIA (1917-20)
8: First delegation
9: Not just a frontier
10: Relocating the Allied blockade
11: Fact-finding with limousines
Part IV: THE BROKEN INTERNATIONAL (1921-1927)
12: The view from Locarno
13: Snapshots from a land of contrasts
14: Comrade Bukharin's version
Part V: STALIN'S RING OF TRUST (1927-1939)
15: No end to the Potemkin complex
16: Friends against famine
17: Steeled minds and the God that failed
Part VI: SUCCESSION AND AFTERLIFE
18: Sliding back to Churchill
19: After the crossing
Afterword: Gone with the Berlin Wall?
Acknowledgements
Appendix 1: 'Bach's Christmas Music in England and in Germany', by Vernon Lee
Appendix 2: 'The Refreshment Room at Narva', by Charles Roden Buxton
Notes
Index

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