A history of Russian culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
Alfred A Knopf, a Borzoi book, 2008, 333p, illustrated, with extended notes and index, hardcover with jacket, in mint condition
From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. Volkov brings to life the experiences that inspired artists like Tolstoy, Stravinsky, Akhmatova, Nijinsky, Nabokov, and Eisenstein to create some of the greatest masterpieces of our time.