{"product_id":"2026100007180-secondhand-lots-wife-and-the-venus-of-milo-conflicting-attitudes-to-the-cultural-heritage-in-modern-russia","title":"Lot's Wife And The Venus Of Milo: Conflicting Attitudes To The Cultural Heritage In Modern Russia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the turbulent intellectual landscape of modern Russia, two powerful symbols collide: Lot's Wife — frozen, backward-looking, paralysed by the past — and the Venus de Milo, the embodiment of classical Western beauty and cultural aspiration. Boris Thomson's Lot's Wife and the Venus of Milo argues that these competing icons encapsulate a profound and unresolved tension at the heart of Russian cultural identity: whether to venerate and preserve inherited tradition or to radically break with it in pursuit of revolutionary renewal. Drawing on a rich array of literary, artistic, and philosophical sources, Thomson chronicles the fierce ideological battles that shaped Soviet and post-revolutionary cultural life, mapping the fault lines between conservatives and iconoclasts, between heritage and erasure.\n\nThomson writes with the precision of a scholar and the conviction of a cultural critic, illuminating how Russia's relationship with its own past has never been merely academic — it has been existential. The book presents a sweeping intellectual history that connects figures from Pushkin to the Soviet avant-garde, illustrating how the question of cultural inheritance became a battleground for the very soul of a nation. Rigorous, thought-provoking, and elegantly constructed, this work leaves the reader asking whether any society can truly escape the petrifying gaze of its own history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130937942235,"sku":"2026100007180-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/490c8357-b907-44f6-a9fc-74755df3e94d.png?v=1786592839","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007180-secondhand-lots-wife-and-the-venus-of-milo-conflicting-attitudes-to-the-cultural-heritage-in-modern-russia","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}