the story of russia book review

In a new book, the historian Orlando Figes argues that the war on Ukraine is only the latest instance of a nation twisting the past to justify its future. The 2016 unveiling of a Moscow monument ...

This is the book I've been wanting to read about Russia - and Figes is exactly the right person to write it. While this does sweep through the history of the country, the real focus, and what makes this so timely and fascinating, is that it doesn't just tell what happens, but how the cultural myth-making of 'Russia' runs alongside, and sometimes over, the historical material narrative.

THE STORY OF RUSSIA

The book is a highly readable overview of more than a millennium of Russian history in fewer than 300 pages with, as the title suggests, an eye on the 'story' that's being told and how it is relevant to the present. Not only does the book make you think about Russia, it also makes you think about the history of every country and the power ...

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 ...

"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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Books. 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 ...

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 ...

Inevitably in a survey of more than 1,000 years of history, much has had to be skirted over or omitted. But this book's purpose is not to fill in all the blanks. It is to examine the recurring themes and myths that drive Vladimir Putin's conviction that war with Ukraine and with western Europe is part of Russia's historical destiny.

Bloomsbury, hbk (£25) 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 ...

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 by Orlando Figes review - Vladimir Putin and the power of myth-making Every nation has its founding myths and narratives, usually starring historical figures we know almost nothing about; absurd stories even to the schoolchildren to whom they are usually peddled.

"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 ...

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."

But this book's purpose is not to fill in all the blanks. It is to examine the recurring themes and myths that drive Vladimir Putin's conviction that war with Ukraine and with western Europe is part of Russia's historical destiny. For those unfamiliar with the past, this is an indispensable manual for making sense of Russia's present ...

"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 ...

"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 ...

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.

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 ...

To understand Putin's paranoia, read this book on Russia's history. Orlando Figes's The Story of Russia is an encyclopaedic study of the all-but-unknowable country. But it's weighed down by ...

The best-selling, much discussed French novel is now a play. It gives a similarly humanizing view of the Russian leader and his inner circle. By Laura Cappelle Reviewing from Paris Perhaps it was ...

A fireman displays abandoned Russian ordnance and weapons following a ceremony marking the 36th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, on April 26th, 2022, in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

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.