Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia Metropolitan Books Oct 2002 isbn: 0805057838 $35.00 buy

Orlando Figes, November 4

Monday, 6:30pm
Weiner Auditorium, Taubman Building, Kennedy School of Government
79 JFK Street, Cambridge
No tickets are required.

"Like the European-schooled countess Natasha performing an impromptu folk dance in Tolstoy's War and Peace, the spirit of 'Russianness' is revealed by Figes as rich and uplifting, complex and contradictory-a powerful force that unified a vast country and proved more lasting than any Russian ruler or state."