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A People's Tragedy - The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
54.99 NZD
56.99 (3% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
Vast in scope, based on exhaustive original research, and written with passion, narrative skill and human sympath, A PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY is the definitive account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. 'A memorably good book.. A PEOPLES TRAGEDY combines dramatic power, absorbinb narrative and magi ...Show more
Crimea by Orlando Figes
32.00 NZD
Category: Military
The terrible conflict that dominated the mid 19th century, the Crimean War killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could co ...Show more
Natasha's Dance - A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
16.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This text provides a richly evocative exploration of Russia, its culture and people. It ranges from the splendour of 18th-century St Petersburg to the power of Stalinist propaganda, bringing to life an extraordinary cast of serf artists and aristocrats, revolutionaries, priests and exiles. Hardback
Natasha's Dance - A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
32.00 NZD
33.00 (3% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
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
75.00 NZD
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 Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
24.99 NZD
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
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
34.99 NZD
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
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