Title:
The story of Russia
Author:
Figes, Orlando, author.
ISBN:
9781250796899
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Edition.
Publication Information:
New York :
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company,
2022.
Physical Description:
348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Origins -- The Mongol impact -- Tsar and God -- Times of trouble -- Russia faces west -- The shadow of Napoleon -- An empire in crisis -- Revolutionary Russia -- The war on old Russia -- Motherland -- Ends.
Abstract:
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.
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