The story of Russia [large print] / Orlando Figes.
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TextSeries: Thorndike Press large print nonfiction seriesPublisher: Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023Copyright date: ©2022Edition: Large print editionDescription: 587 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9798885786874
- 947Â 23/eng/20221007
| Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | Independence Public Library Large Print Non-Fiction | Independence Public Library | Adult Books | LP 947 FIGE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 36123010481735 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-582).
Introduction -- 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.
"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 or the dramatic upheaval of the peasant revolution, he reveals the impulses that have driven Russian history. How the Russians came to tell their story and to revise 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, The Story of Russia is sweeping, revelatory, and masterful"--
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