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Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia (Reprint Edition) by Fellow Orlando Figes, Dr Orlando Figes, Walter Benjamin Paperback, 768 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-10: 0-312-42195-8 / 0312421958 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42195-3 / 9780312421953 As epic and ambitious as his first book A People's Tragedy, Orlando Figes's Natasha's Dance is a sweeping panorama of Russian culture over the centuries. It takes its title from a scene in War and Peace in which the upper-crust Natasha Rostov, visiting her countrified "Uncle", falls instinctively in |