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"Scintillating. . .an exceptional history of Russian culture and a joy to read." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Stunning and ambitious. . .Figes captures nothing less than Russians' complex and protean notions regarding their national identity." --The Atlantic Monthly
"Staggering. . .A vivid, entertaining, and enlightening account of what it has meant to be culturally a Russian over the last three centuries." --Los Angeles Times
"[A] masterly work." --New York Review of Books
"A big, bold, interpretative cultural history." --Foreign Affairs
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