Books by Modris Eksteins and Complete Book Reviews

Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Modris Eksteins, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24.95 (396p) ISBN 978-0-395-49856-9
In a trailblazing, iconoclastic work of cultural history, Eksteins links the modern avant-garde's penchant for primitivism, abstraction and myth-making to the protofascist ideology and militarism unleashed by WW I. For Eksteins, professor of history
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Rites of Spring
Rites of Spring
Modris Eksteins, Author Anchor Books $14.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-41202-5
``In a trailblazing, iconoclastic work of cultural history, Eksteins links the modern avant-garde's penchant for primitivism, abstraction and myth-making to the protofascist ideology and militarism unleashed by WW I,'' reported PW . ``This...
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Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe
Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century
Modris Eksteins, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $27.5 (258p) ISBN 978-0-395-93747-1
Groundbreaking historian Eksteins adds this very personal exercise in historical thinking to his impressive body of work (The Limits of Reason; Rites of Spring; etc.). His subject is life, including his own and his family's, in the Baltic republics...
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