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The Story of Russia - 'An excellent short study' (Hardcover)
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The Story of Russia - 'An excellent short study' (Hardcover)
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A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator
* Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history
book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE
APPLEBAUM 'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of
Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian scholarship' SIMON
SEBAG MONTEFIORE 'A great historian at the peak of his powers'
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE '[An] excellent short study' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY
TIMES 'If you really want to understand Putin's Russia today,
anchored in its past of myths, then you simply have to read Figes's
superb account' ANTONY BEEVOR 'A lucid chronological journey that
ably illustrates how narratives from the nation's past have been
used to shape its autocratic present' OBSERVER 'A valuable,
instructive overview' INDEPENDENT ------------------------- From
the great storyteller of Russia, a spellbinding account of the
stories that have shaped the country's past - and how they can
inform its present. No other country has been so divided over its
own past as Russia. None has changed its story so often. How the
Russians came to tell their story, and to reinvent it as they went
along, is a vital aspect of their history, their culture and
beliefs. To understand what Russia's future holds - to grasp what
Putin's regime means for Russia and the world - we need to unravel
the ideas and meanings of that history. In The Story of Russia,
Orlando Figes brings into sharp relief the vibrant characters that
comprise Russia's rich history, and whose stories remain so
important in making sense of the world's largest nation today -
from the crowning of sixteen-year-old Ivan the Terrible in a
candlelit cathedral, to Catherine the Great, riding out in a green
uniform to arrest her husband at his palace, to the bitter last
days of the Romanovs. Beautifully written and based on a lifetime
of scholarship, The Story of Russia is a major and definitive work
from the great storyteller of Russian history: sweeping,
suspenseful, masterful. ------------------------- PRAISE FOR
ORLANDO FIGES 'An outstanding historian and writer, he brings
distant history so close that you could feel its heartbeat' KARL
OVE KNAUSGAARD 'Figes knows more about Russia than any other
historian' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES
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