Red Star over the Black Sea: Nazim Hikmet and his Generation

ISBN-13: 9780192871176 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 416 str.

Asso James H. (Associate Professor of Islamic World History

Recenzje

The book is a new biography of the great 20th century poet Nazım Hikmet (1902-1963). It draws deeply on previously untapped archival sources from Moscow, Istanbul, Amsterdam and Washington, situating him within a broader generation of border-crossing Turkish communists.

O autorze

A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, James H. Meyer has spent more than three decades studying and living in the Turkish-Russian borderlands. After graduating with a BA in English from McGill University, he worked for seven years as a teacher in Istanbul. In 1999 Meyer returned to the US, completing an MA in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University (2001) and a PhD in Middle Eastern and Russian history at Brown University (2007). Since 2009, he has taught history at Montana State University. Meyer's first book, Turks Across Empires, was published by OUP in 2014.