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Natasha's Dance - A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
This tremendously attractive, ambitious, dizzying book is in every way a worthy successor to Figes' bestselling "A People's Tragedy". The whole panorama of Russia's mighty culture is conjured up in a way that is fresh, intimate and immediate. Whether talking about music or novels, buildings or paintings ...Show more
The Europeans: Three Cosmopolitan Lives and the Making of a European Culture in the 19th Century by Orlando Figes
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
The Europeans is both a highly original, panoramic account of how in the 19th century huge aesthetic, economic, technological and legal changes created, for the first time, a genuinely pan-European culture - and an intimate story of a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a g ...Show more
The Europeans - Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture by Orlando Figes
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
From the "master of historical narrative" (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work--the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture.The nineteenth century in Europe was a time of unprecedented artistic achievement. It was also the first age of cultural global ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past', George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four. In this glorious work of history, Orlando Figes argues that the maxim is truer for Russia than for any other country in the world. The Story of Russia begins in the firs ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian sch ...Show more
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