Russian History Book Haul | Three Books
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- Orlando Figes
A People's Tragedy - The Russian Revolution - geni.us/tCBGZH
Revolutionary Russia: 1891-1991 - geni.us/7IW71l
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia - geni.us/2GZyG
War and Peace - Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, Vintage Classics - geni.us/V53C
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"That's hoo they get yeh!" 😉 Really enjoy your presentation and your passion for the whole reading experience, Cams. And the fact that it harks from a Scotsman enhances it all exponentially.
Cheers Gary! Appreciate your support!
@@CamsCampbellReads Pleasure and honour, mate!
Scottish accents are some of my favorites, ever! Though it took me a while for my ears to adjust. I'm a huge Lord of the Rings fan, both books and movies. When I first started hearing Billy Boyd, I swear I couldn't understand a thing he was saying, LOL! But then my ears/brain tuned into the frequency, as it were, and I was fine. I'd give anything to see Scotland one day. I wouldn't care if it was cold and raining every day. It's just so beautiful. Sigh.
I enjoyed People’s Tragedy enormously. I was put off by the size of it, but soon forgot that and couldn’t stop reading once I’d started. Well worth it, enjoy!
Excellent to hear this! I’m looking forward to it.
Book haul...yeiiii. did I tell you that your videos have me started in classics? Thank you. I'm waiting for Anna Karenina Deluxe Edition and others. 😊 ordered Oblomov and Madame Bovary as well. 🎉
You got some good ones there! I'm touched that it was my videos that got you started. Enjoy the journey!
Plenty to keep you out of mischief there. Best wishes and have a great summer.
Thanks, you too!
Orlando Figes is great! I read the Crimean War by him and it's quite accessible. Sean McMeekin is another scholar who has written a newer perspective on the Russian Revolution. And I think people's tragedy is also a relook at the revolution through a similar lens--that the communists were merely bystanders in the revolution until the very end. And that the revolution wasn't inevitable. The people weren't as tyrannised by the Tsar as the later histories made them out to be
I'm about to dive in. I only know about the Crimean War from Tolstoy's Sebastopol Sketches.
Great haul. I read that translation of War and Peace in January and loved it. Picked up both those Orlando Figes books in the last couple of months and am hoping to read them for Historathon 2024. I do enjoy a good readalong and all the fab discussion that goes along with. Nice video 😊
You're the second person to mention Historathon in my comments. I'm going to have to take a look at what it's all about as I hadn't heard of it.
Darn, I really want to read those two Figes books!
I listened to Natasha’s Dance on Audible. His writing was very easy to read and inspired me to read more of non fiction of Russian history. He references many many books and prominate literary , musical, and historical people. I want to get the physical copy to look at all the picture references mentioned in it. A definite must read 👍🏼
Ooh, it's on Audible, is it? I have some credits to use. Might be a good idea. Thanks for the heads up!
A People's Tragedy is excellent. I'm doing a readalong of Trotsky's 'History of the Russian Revolution' with Christy Luis of Dostoevsky in Space so I'm re-reading it for a bit of compare and comparison. I think you'll really enjoy 'Natasha's Dance'. I was briefly taught by him when I was doing an MA at Birkbeck that I had to drop out from.
I looked at that Trotsky book in Waterstones this week. Glad to hear the Figes book is excellent. I didn’t know Christy Luis. I looked her up and her channel looks great. Thanks for bringing it up!
Also, since you knew Figes, can you confirm I’m pronouncing his name correctly?
@@CamsCampbellReads That's how I remember it. His mother was Eva Figes, who was a novelist and feminist whose family escaped Nazi Germany.
Cams your videos are delightful so very calming. What Great book choices from wob. I’m desperately trying to catch up with war and peace too, I totally agree with you wish I could just pause life so I could read all the books I want and catch up 🤣🤣so many reads to get to so little time 😂have a lovely day ahead -I have an bank holiday here so more reading time 😊📚📖📚
Thank you for the kind words. Yes, bank holiday, yay! Hope you have a lovely day of reading.
Right? Stupid Real Life is forever intruding on our reading time!
I've read "The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture" by Orlando Figes and it was one of the best books of my life. It tells the cultural history of the XIX century Europe through lives of Turgenev (Russian writer) and his lover Pauline Viardot (French opera singer). This book is so well written it reads like a novel but is full of facts, anecdotes from lives of famous writers and history of literature, art, music, travels. Highly recommend it to anyone interested in literature or history. P.S Sound is perfect now, thank you so much! It was pleasure to watch :).
I've never read this author, but he seems very popular. I have to get on it!
Another one to add to the TBR! I'm going to read Natasha's Dance this month and A People's Tragedy in July as a buddy read with a channel supporter. Wanna join?
I absolutely loved Natasha's Dance, one of my favorites.
Ooh, this is so good to hear!
Oh, I wish I'd chosen Crime & Punishment as my first Dostoevsky so I could've joined the read-along! Instead, I am struggling my way through The Brothers Karamazov. I'm 180 pages in and I couldn't tell you who's who and what's going on, if my life depended on it. Sigh. I wish there was something that gave you a summary of each chapter so I could read that after each one. But most study helps talk about the story as a whole, the themes, etc.. I don't want any spoilers at all. Not knowing what's going to happen is the only thing keeping me moving forward. Say a prayer for me! I wanted to love this but I am struggling.
I read Brothers Karamazov at uni and didn't enjoy it at all. I have it planned to reread in November and I'm sure this time I'm ready for it. But then, it was a struggle and I had to finish it for class.
I think The vintage classic edition of War and Peace that will be released in november is a reprint. If you check the book details it is written 'heruitgave', in Dutch reprint.
Right; thanks. I wonder if it’s been edited.
@@CamsCampbellReads no idea, we'll have to wait till November😉
I read a bit of Figes book, just to get a flavour. I'm supposed to be reading it in October. I doubt I shall last. I'm so glad you suggested it, Cams.
Nice one. I should buddy read it with you.
@@CamsCampbellReads that's a great idea. When?
How about now? How quickly are you hoping to get through it? Would the end of June be a good target for you?
@@CamsCampbellReads I'm midway in two Historathon books, Crime and Punishment, Tolstoy catchup, Dune etc. I'm away for two weeks in June on holiday. How about if we did July?
@@battybibliophile-Clare Yeah, that sounds good to me. Then I can try to keep going with the Tale of Genji through June.
Hi. I haven't read the book myself but I guess the Natasha in Natasha's Dance is a reference to the character of Natasha in War and Peace. Only guessing, though.
Yeah, I read that somewhere after I'd made the video. It is indeed Natasha Rostova.
People's tragedy is 99p on UK kindle today
On it. Thanks!