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Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991A History by Orlando Figes
$13.95 AUD
Category: REM History
From the author of A People's Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreams In this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian Revolut ...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 | Reading Level: near fine
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
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