ISBN: 9780393070842

Edition: First edition.

Description: 336 pages : illustrations

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• pt. 1. City of dreams
• The sinister shore
• Potemkin and the mercenaries
• Beacon
• The governor and the poet
• "There is nothing national about Odessa"
• pt. 2. The habitations of cruelty
• Schemes and shadows
• Blood and vengeance
• New world
• The fields of Transnistria
• "I would like to bring to your attention to the following"
• pt. 3. Nostalgia and remembrance
• Hero city
• Twilight
• Chronology.

LCCN: 2010038000

Control Number: 772513

Subjects:

• Cosmopolitanism -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
• Cruelty -- Social aspects -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
• Cultural pluralism -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
• Death -- Social aspects -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
• Genius -- Social aspects -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
• Jews -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.
• Odesa (Ukraine) -- Biography.
• Odesa (Ukraine) -- History.
• Odesa (Ukraine) -- Social conditions.
• Social change -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History.

Genre: Biographies.