Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

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Una premessa che è stata variamente messa in discussione e che gli ha persino attirato la definizione di libro “kitsch”. History on a grand scale-an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizations In 2023 Figes' debut play, The Oyster Problem, was produced by the Jermyn Street Theatre in London. The play is about the financial crisis of the writer Gustave Flaubert in the last years of his life and the attempts of his literary friends, George Sand, Emile Zola and Ivan Turgenev, to find him a sinecure. Bob Barrett played the part of Flaubert and Philip Wilson directed. [51] Everything Theatre described The Oyster Problem as "a remarkable pearl of a play; a patchwork of anecdotes that welcomes us into the private life of Gustave Flaubert and his literary contemporaries" [52] Film and television work [ edit ] It is so much fun to read that I hesitate to write too much, for fear of spoiling the pleasures and surprises of the book'

I'm tempted to say that this is a great book because like Russian art it has a soul, but that sounds presumptuous since I've not an expert on any Russian art and I've never been to Russia. But I've been a fan of Russian literature--especially the great novels of the 19th century, and of Russian music and particularly of the Russian ballet and its offshoots in the West. Figes's first three books were on the Russian Revolution and the Civil War. Peasant Russia, Civil War (1989) was a detailed study of the peasantry in the Volga region during the Revolution and the Civil War (1917–21). Using village Soviet archives, Figes emphasised the autonomous nature of the agrarian revolution during 1917–18, showing how it developed according to traditional peasant notions of social justice independently of the Provisional Government, the Bolsheviks or other urban-based parties. [11] He also demonstrated how the function of the rural Soviets was transformed in the course of the Civil War as they were taken over by younger and more literate peasants and migrant townsmen, many of them veterans of the First World War or Red Army soldiers, who became the rural bureaucrats of the emerging Bolshevik regime. urn:lcp:natashasdancecul0000fige:epub:22f4ac5b-5eeb-41ea-a59b-d100d4b75414 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier natashasdancecul0000fige Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8gg3d50h Invoice 1652 Isbn 0805057838 Lccn 2002071881 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-beta-20210815 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-1200059 Openlibrary_edition The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the sphere of suffering shared, and in this case extended to the death march itself, there is no spiritual or emotional legacy here to offset any reader reluctance.BASIC ERRORSWhen discussing Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Figes refers to Sonya Marmeladova as Raskolnikov’s lover, which is incorrect. He also confuses the characters of War and Peace with those of Anna Karenina. Furthermore, Figes incorrectly states which organs were transplanted into which body in Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog. a b "Four Documentaries – The Tsar's Last Picture Show". BBC. 22 November 2007 . Retrieved 31 August 2011. In June 2023, he said that Russia "needs to be completely defeated" in the Russo-Ukrainian War, "not just for Ukraine's sake, but for Russia's sake". [50] Plays [ edit ] Figes, Orlando (8 December 2008). "Blog Archive – An open letter to President Medvedev". Index on Censorship. Christiansen, Rupert (15 September 2019). "A ménage a trois that transformed European culture". The Sunday Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235.

Boyd, William (7 September 2019). "The Europeans by Orlando Figes review – the importance of a shared culture". The Guardian . Retrieved 1 October 2019. Figes, Orlando (16 December 2013). "Is There One Ukraine?". Foreign Affairs . Retrieved 24 July 2015. Luke Harding (15 October 2009). "Russian historian arrested in clampdown on Stalin era". The Guardian. a b Fox, Killian (3 September 2022). "Orlando Figes: 'Gorbachev was a very sharp and likable person' ". The Guardian (interview) . Retrieved 6 September 2022. Stanford, Peter (8 October 2017). "Those who complained about War and Peace are 'whingers', says historical advisor Orlando Figes". Telegraph.co.uk . Retrieved 8 October 2017.Guy Dammann (14 July 2008). "Interview: Guy Dammann talks to Orlando Figes". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 31 August 2011. Figes has also condemned the arrest by the FSB of historian Mikhail Suprun as part of a "Putinite campaign against freedom of historical research and expression". [48] The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8050-7461-1, ISBN 0-8050-7461-9, ISBN 978-0-8050-7461-1, ISBN 0-8050-7461-9 My only real criticism of Natasha's Dance is that the scope of the book is too ambitious. Figes has done a great job of writing about Russian culture since Russia became Russia in the post-Mongol world, but that leaves the reader wondering where the origins of these cultural, artistic and attitudinal movements lie. There certainly has been be a boundary for a study as broad as this to make sense and stay focused, and the boundary from which Figes works is a sensible one, but it leaves important questions unanswered and the reader (or, more precisely, me) wanting a prequel to Natasha's Dance. How did what is now Russia look culturally before the Mongol invasions? How did Mongol occupation affect local culture, and did that local culture affect Mongol traditions and art?