Modris Eksteins: 3 books
Rites of Spring
The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2000
This award-winning cultural history reveals how the Great War changed humanity.
This sweeping volume probes the origins, the impact, and the aftermath of World War I—from the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. “The Great War,”...
Walking Since Daybreak
A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2000
Part history, part autobiography, WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II. Personal stories of the survival or destruction of Modris Eksteins's family members lend an intimate dimension to this vast narrative of those millions who...
Solar Dance
Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Art dealer Otto Wacker’s 1932 sensational trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs leads Eksteins to a unique narrative of a collapsing Weimar Germany, the rise of another misfit, Adolf Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt.