Name: The Story of Russia
Price: 741.00 TWD
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Author: Orlando Figes
ISBN: 9781250871398

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Physical Book

Author

Orlando Figes

Publisher

Metropolitan Books

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781250871398

The Story of Russia

Orlando Figes (Author) · Metropolitan Books · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Story of Russia "

"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" (Financial Times), a brilliant account of the national mythologies and imperial ideologies that have shaped Russia's past and politics--essential reading for understanding the country today 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. No other country has reimagined its own story so often, in a perpetual effort to stay in step with the shifts of ruling ideologies. From the founding of Kievan Rus in the first millennium to Putin's war against Ukraine, Orlando Figes explores the ideas that have guided Russia's actions throughout its long and troubled existence. Whether he's describing the crowning of Ivan the Terrible in a candlelit cathedral or the dramatic upheaval of the peasant revolution, he reveals the impulses, often unappreciated or misunderstood by foreigners, that have driven Russian history: the medieval myth of Mother Russia's holy mission to the world; the imperial tendency toward autocratic rule; the popular belief in a paternal tsar dispensing truth and justice; the cult of sacrifice rooted in the idea of the "Russian soul"; and always, the nationalist myth of Russia's unjust treatment by the West. How the Russians came to tell their story and to revise it so often as they went along is not only a vital aspect of their history; it is also our best means of understanding how the country thinks and acts today. Based on a lifetime of scholarship and enthrallingly written, The Story of Russia is quintessential Figes: sweeping, revelatory, and masterful.

Orlando Figes

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Orlando Figes (London, 1959) is a British historian, naturalized German in 2017, specialized in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and was a professor at Trinity College and Birkbeck College of the University of London until his retirement in 2022. He is known for his narrative and accessible approach in works of cultural and political history, and has been a member of the Royal Society of Literature since 2003.

Among his most notable books are The Tragedy of a People: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 (1996), awarded the Wolfson Prize; Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia (2002); The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (2007); and The Story of Russia (2022). His works have been translated into more than thirty languages and have been recognized for their analytical depth and literary style.

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