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Book Review: 'The Story of Russia' by Orlando Figes
THE STORY OF RUSSIA, by Orlando Figes | 368 pp. | Metropolitan Books | $29.99 A version of this article appears in print on , Page 8 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: The Myths That ...
THE STORY OF RUSSIA
THE STORY OF RUSSIA. A lucid, astute text that unpacks the myths of Russian history to help explain present-day motivations and actions. An expert on Russia delivers a crucially relevant study of a country that has been continuously "subjected to the vicissitudes of ruling ideologies.". Wolfson History Prize winner Figes, one of the world ...
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
The Story of Russia is a fresh approach to the thousand years of Russia's history, concerned as much with the ideas that have shaped how Russians think about their past as it is with the events and personalities comprising it. ... I had second thoughts about reading this book after reading a review of it in the Guardian. But I did give him a ...
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
The Story of Russia is a highly readable account of the whole of Russian history, from the early days of the Rus to the current war in Ukraine, in fewer than 300 pages. Historian Orlando Figes, author of our most recommended book on Russian history—A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution—shows how that history is essentially a story ...
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"This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West." ―Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy and Red Famine Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews From "the great storyteller of Russian history ...
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For the lay reader, The Story of Russia provides an informative historical overview, written in straightforward, measured prose. The scale of Figes' account means that it can be used as a springboard for more in-depth study of a discrete topic — for example, further reading about Ivan IV (better known in the West as Ivan the Terrible) may be triggered by a desire to learn more about Putin's ...
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes Bloomsbury £25, 352 pages. Karl Schlögel is professor emeritus, chair of east European history, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder. His book 'The ...
The Story of Russia
The Story of Russia. Orlando Figes. Metropolitan Books, Sep 20, 2022 - History - 320 pages. "This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West.". —Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy and Red Famine.
Review of The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
A revelatory journey through Russia's unique history. In The Story of Russia, British historian and writer Orlando Figes shares panoramic and authoritative insight into the heritage of this vast and complex country.Figes posits the theory that an understanding of Russia's past is crucial if one is to unpack the logic of contemporary politics and access the mindset of ruling elites ...
The Story of Russia
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 ...
THE STORY OF RUSSIA
THE STORY OF RUSSIA. by Orlando Figes ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 20, 2022. An expert on Russia delivers a crucially relevant study of a country that has been continuously "subjected to the vicissitudes of ruling ideologies.". Wolfson History Prize winner Figes, one of the world's leading authorities on Russian history and culture, shows how ...
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What Figes does note - correctly in my view - is that Putin's approach to history is somewhat 'pick-and-mix', a postmodern selection of what fits his current purpose, shape-shifting along with his policies to adapt to changed circumstances. The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes has an overall rating of Rave based on 10 book reviews.
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"Orlando Figes' new book The Story of Russia could not be more timely or informative." Orlando Figes' new book The Story of Russia could not be more timely or informative.With the Russia-Ukraine war in its seventh month with no end in sight, it is important for Western statesmen to understand the origins and motivations of Russia's invasion which, as Figes understands, are rooted in ...
The Story of Russia
ISBN: 978-1526631749. REVIEW BY ANDRÉ VAN LOON. The Story of Russia is a thorough work of historical writing that unfortunately leaves aside its most interesting ideas after the book's introduction. Figes starts with a fascinating series of hypotheses: that Russia has been more divided over its past than any other country; that the Russians ...
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"The Story of Russia" by Orlando Figes has a wealth of information about Russian history and recognizes that it is more complex than most realize; for example, the book contains a lot of maps, and you will need them to describe the provinces at different points throughout history.
Book review: The Story of Russia
The Story of Russia. by Orlando Figes. Bloomsbury £25.00. Why is Russia as it is — from holy Tsars to Soviet commissars to Putin's nationalists? The historian Orlando Figes's latest book ...
The Story of Russia and Russia: Myths and Realities
Figes's book and Rodric Braithwaite's Russia: Myths and Realities together provide the historical background needed in order to make a decent judgment on where Russia is going. They both take ...
Book Review: The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
Whilst The Story of Russia covers the broad span of Russian history, Figes aims to show how this historical backdrop is essential for understanding the Russia we see today. Talk of powerful oligarchs, militarism and Vladimir Putin's megalomania are clearly shown to be reductive, and Figes's book makes the powerful call for understanding ...
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
The Story of Russia Orlando Figes. Metropolitan, $29.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-79689-9 ... Book Reviews Articles. The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture.
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Editorial Reviews "An indispensable manual for making sense of Russia's present . . . The Story of Russia shows how myth and fact mix dangerously in the tales this crucial country tells about itself." —The Guardian "A lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from Russia's past have been used to shape its autocratic present."
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
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. Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. ISBN: 9781526631756. Number of pages: 368. Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm.
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Goodbye to Russia is an honest and thought-provoking memoir from BBC journalist Sarah Rainsford, who found herself expelled from Russia in 2021 when she was classed an 'enemy of the state'. Following the decline of freedom of speech from the early 2000s through to the ongoing war in Ukraine, Rainsford tells the stories of Russian dissidents who have dared to speak out against the state.
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"This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West." —Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy and Red Famine Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews From "the great storyteller of Russian history ...
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The Story of Russia Audio CD - Unabridged, September 20, 2022. by Orlando Figes (Author) 4.5 603 ratings. See all formats and editions. MP3 CD Format. From "the great storyteller of Russian history", a brilliantly colored account of the myths that have shaped and reshaped Russia's identity and politics from its founding.
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THE STORY OF RUSSIA, by Orlando Figes | 368 pp. | Metropolitan Books | $29.99 A version of this article appears in print on , Page 8 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: The Myths That ...
THE STORY OF RUSSIA. A lucid, astute text that unpacks the myths of Russian history to help explain present-day motivations and actions. An expert on Russia delivers a crucially relevant study of a country that has been continuously "subjected to the vicissitudes of ruling ideologies.". Wolfson History Prize winner Figes, one of the world ...
The Story of Russia is a fresh approach to the thousand years of Russia's history, concerned as much with the ideas that have shaped how Russians think about their past as it is with the events and personalities comprising it. ... I had second thoughts about reading this book after reading a review of it in the Guardian. But I did give him a ...
The Story of Russia is a highly readable account of the whole of Russian history, from the early days of the Rus to the current war in Ukraine, in fewer than 300 pages. Historian Orlando Figes, author of our most recommended book on Russian history—A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution—shows how that history is essentially a story ...
"This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West." ―Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy and Red Famine Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews From "the great storyteller of Russian history ...
For the lay reader, The Story of Russia provides an informative historical overview, written in straightforward, measured prose. The scale of Figes' account means that it can be used as a springboard for more in-depth study of a discrete topic — for example, further reading about Ivan IV (better known in the West as Ivan the Terrible) may be triggered by a desire to learn more about Putin's ...
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes Bloomsbury £25, 352 pages. Karl Schlögel is professor emeritus, chair of east European history, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder. His book 'The ...
The Story of Russia. Orlando Figes. Metropolitan Books, Sep 20, 2022 - History - 320 pages. "This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West.". —Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy and Red Famine.
A revelatory journey through Russia's unique history. In The Story of Russia, British historian and writer Orlando Figes shares panoramic and authoritative insight into the heritage of this vast and complex country.Figes posits the theory that an understanding of Russia's past is crucial if one is to unpack the logic of contemporary politics and access the mindset of ruling elites ...
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 ...
THE STORY OF RUSSIA. by Orlando Figes ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 20, 2022. An expert on Russia delivers a crucially relevant study of a country that has been continuously "subjected to the vicissitudes of ruling ideologies.". Wolfson History Prize winner Figes, one of the world's leading authorities on Russian history and culture, shows how ...
What Figes does note - correctly in my view - is that Putin's approach to history is somewhat 'pick-and-mix', a postmodern selection of what fits his current purpose, shape-shifting along with his policies to adapt to changed circumstances. The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes has an overall rating of Rave based on 10 book reviews.
"Orlando Figes' new book The Story of Russia could not be more timely or informative." Orlando Figes' new book The Story of Russia could not be more timely or informative.With the Russia-Ukraine war in its seventh month with no end in sight, it is important for Western statesmen to understand the origins and motivations of Russia's invasion which, as Figes understands, are rooted in ...
ISBN: 978-1526631749. REVIEW BY ANDRÉ VAN LOON. The Story of Russia is a thorough work of historical writing that unfortunately leaves aside its most interesting ideas after the book's introduction. Figes starts with a fascinating series of hypotheses: that Russia has been more divided over its past than any other country; that the Russians ...
"The Story of Russia" by Orlando Figes has a wealth of information about Russian history and recognizes that it is more complex than most realize; for example, the book contains a lot of maps, and you will need them to describe the provinces at different points throughout history.
The Story of Russia. by Orlando Figes. Bloomsbury £25.00. Why is Russia as it is — from holy Tsars to Soviet commissars to Putin's nationalists? The historian Orlando Figes's latest book ...
Figes's book and Rodric Braithwaite's Russia: Myths and Realities together provide the historical background needed in order to make a decent judgment on where Russia is going. They both take ...
Whilst The Story of Russia covers the broad span of Russian history, Figes aims to show how this historical backdrop is essential for understanding the Russia we see today. Talk of powerful oligarchs, militarism and Vladimir Putin's megalomania are clearly shown to be reductive, and Figes's book makes the powerful call for understanding ...
The Story of Russia Orlando Figes. Metropolitan, $29.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-79689-9 ... Book Reviews Articles. The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture.
Editorial Reviews "An indispensable manual for making sense of Russia's present . . . The Story of Russia shows how myth and fact mix dangerously in the tales this crucial country tells about itself." —The Guardian "A lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from Russia's past have been used to shape its autocratic present."
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. Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. ISBN: 9781526631756. Number of pages: 368. Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm.
Goodbye to Russia is an honest and thought-provoking memoir from BBC journalist Sarah Rainsford, who found herself expelled from Russia in 2021 when she was classed an 'enemy of the state'. Following the decline of freedom of speech from the early 2000s through to the ongoing war in Ukraine, Rainsford tells the stories of Russian dissidents who have dared to speak out against the state.
The publication consists of four books: History of Russia (grade 10), World History (grade 10), History of Russia (grade 11), and World History (grade 11). Thus, for the first time, two courses ...
"This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West." —Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy and Red Famine Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews From "the great storyteller of Russian history ...
The opening episode of the art historian and curator Sjeng Scheijen's "The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917-1935" is well chosen.
Black Myth: Wukong, made by China-based studio Game Science, is an action role-playing game inspired by Journey to the West.It, along with Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, and Dream of ...
100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review ...
When Raisa was 11 years old, she and her mother left Soviet Russia for England in the wake of the murder of her beloved Papa and sister, Zoya. In England, Raisa becomes Rosie. She attends Oxford ...
In its 229 pages, the book revisits some of the worst communist regimes in Russia, China and elsewhere to argue that these movements follow a consistent pattern of instilling fear, stripping away ...
The Story of Russia Audio CD - Unabridged, September 20, 2022. by Orlando Figes (Author) 4.5 603 ratings. See all formats and editions. MP3 CD Format. From "the great storyteller of Russian history", a brilliantly colored account of the myths that have shaped and reshaped Russia's identity and politics from its founding.