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0571234879 
Paperback The vanishing futurist / Charlotte Hobson.
Publication year: 2017
Media class: Paperback
Category: Fiction
Publisher: 2017. London : Faber & Faber,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780571234875 9780571234875 (pbk.) :
Available: 2
Number of reservations: 0
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When twenty-two-year-old Gerty Freely travels to Russia to work as a governess in early 1914, she has no idea of the vast political upheavals ahead, nor how completely her fate will be shaped by them. In 1917, revolution sweeps away the Moscow Gerty knew. The middle classes - and their governesses - are fleeing the country, but she stays, throwing herself into an experiment in communal living led by charismatic inventor Nikita Slavkin, inspired by his belief in a future free of bourgeois clutter and alight with creativity. Yet the chaos and violence of the outside world cannot be withstood forever. Slavkin's sudden disappearance inspires the Soviet cult of the Vanishing Futurist, the scientist who sacrificed himself for the Communist ideal. Gerty, alone and vulnerable, must now discover where that ideal will ultimately lead.
Moscow (Russia) History 1917-1921 Fiction.
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0571234860 
Hardback 
Year: 2016.
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Faber & Faber,
Resource type: Physical
308 pages ; 23 cm
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