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First Russia, then Tibet

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First Russia, then Tibet
14.99 €
This book brings together the travel notes of the English traveler, journalist, art historian, and writer Robert Byron (1905-1941) on Russia, India, and Tibet, three countries that in the early 1930s were on the cusp of significant changes in society and culture. Arriving in the Soviet Union just as Stalin's repression was beginning, Byron immersed himself in the study of Old Russian painting, but still had time to socialize with avant-garde artists, notably Shchusev and Greenberg. From a country that was the apotheosis of the industrial revolution, he traveled through unrest-ridden India to pre-industrial Tibet, where the Dalai Lama took refuge in a palace and traveled exclusively in a palanquin. Byron undertook his journey to find alternative models of social organization to those of the West, and to discover "who and what this world is made of," and the result is an honest, passionate, and visionary eyewitness account of the antagonism of two great cultures and the resounding historical upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century.
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