Natasha's Dance
  • Published: 1 July 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141989594
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 768

Natasha's Dance

A Cultural History of Russia

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4 Sep 2003
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1 Jul 2018
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From the award-winning author of The Whisperers, Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling history of Russia's mighty culture

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, Figes' enthusiasm and literary brilliance sweeps the reader along through a series of great set-piece chapters.
  • Published: 1 July 2018
  • ISBN: 9780141989594
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 768
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About the author

Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Born in London in 1959, he was previously a Lecturer in History and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. A People’s Tragedy received the Wolfson Prize, the NCR Book Award, the W.H. Smith Literary Award, the Longman/History Today Book Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is the author of many other books on Russian history including Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, The Whisperers: Private life in Stalin’s Russia, Crimea: the Last Crusade and Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag.

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Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991
Just Send Me Word
Crimea
The Whisperers
A People's Tragedy
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