The Story of Russia
Autor Orlando Figesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 sep 2023
-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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781250871398
ISBN-10: 1250871395
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 135 x 208 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Henry Holt & Company
ISBN-10: 1250871395
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 135 x 208 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Henry Holt & Company
Caracteristici
Orlando Figes is one of the world's leading authorities on European history whose books have been Sunday Times bestsellers and sold nearly 250,000 copies through TCM. Fans of his work include Peter Frankopan, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Antony Beevor, Simon Sebag-Montefiore, Philippe Sands, Andrew Marr and Antonia Fraser.
Notă biografică
Orlando Figes is an award-winning author and historian, who has held teaching posts at Birkbeck College, University of London and Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He was born in London in 1959 and studied History at the University of Cambridge. Figes is the bestselling author of nine books on Russian and European history, including Natasha's Dance and A People's Tragedy. His books have been translated into over 30 languages.
Recenzii
Figes's book is an absorbing and enlightening read, a triumph of concision, analysis and insight
A deeply impressive and deeply immersive book . . . The author sets out to reveal Russia's history, its people's perception of their past and the manifold ways in which those in power manipulate both events and legend to shape the present. It is a saga of multi-millennial identity politics
To understand Putin's paranoia, read this book on Russia's history
A lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from the nation's past have been used to shape its autocratic present
If you really want to understand Putin's Russia today, anchored in its past of myths, then you simply have to read Figes's superb account in The Story of Russia
An indispensable survey of more than 1,000 years of history shows how myth and fact mix dangerously in the tales this crucial country tells about itself
A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . its tsars and tyrants, wars and massacres, ideas and dreams vividly drawn, its analysis of Russian power and empire essential reading today
An expert on Russia delivers a crucially relevant study . . . A lucid, astute text that unpacks the myths of Russian history to help explain present-day motivations and actions
Urgent and revelatory and brilliantly told, it's all the things you pray a book will be when you first pick it up
Excellent short study
The historian's latest work on Russia is a lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from the nation's past have been used to shape its autocratic present
Figes skilfully assesses the evolution of the forms of government and society that inhibited the development of controls of the tsar
Accessible and epic . . . A great introduction to an enthralling subject
An impressive account of the ideas, myths and ideologies that have shaped that country and the way its people interpret the past . . . Figes's book offers a valuable, instructive overview
Anyone who wants to detox from Putin's mythomanic claims about Russia's history and what it means for today's world will find some relief in The Story of Russia . . . Figes presents Russia's history in a straightforward manner
Valuable book
[An] imaginative sweep and a capacity to encapsulate in a memorable way
Orlando Figes provides valuable lessons about the importance of mythologizing the country's past in his sweeping new survey of Russian history
Sweeping and concise . . . It is a skilled piece of compression
This is a brilliant condensation - his analysis of Soviet Russia is superb - of a seriously complex tale
The Story of Russia combines profound knowledge and understanding of the longer, deeper structural processes of history with the personal experience of an author seeking to understand what is happening on the ground today
Orlando Figes's latest book provides fascinating insights into this contemporary conundrum. The Story of Russia is a truly incisive and important dissection of Russia's troubled past, both real and mythical, but it also provides a crucial context for understanding the present
This book is a timely reminder of the malign uses to which history can be put
A brilliantly concentrated meditation on the power of myth and history, and the ability of both to form and deform and guide and misguide the present. Thoughtful, nuanced and above all persuasive, it shows how we are all trapped in the loops and coils of myth, memory and forgetting, and demonstrates the urgent need for historians to remember, and insist on the truth
Beautifully brief, The Story of Russia shows centuries of regimes that revisit their past to manipulate the future, and eternally start from the wrong place acting in venal self-interest rather than the true national interest
Given the news, Orlando Figes's short book could hardly be better timed ... His story abounds in strange and memorable characters, from emperors to writers. But it's the sheer sweep that impresses most, as he turns a potentially grim and overwhelming subject into a delightfully brisk and enjoyable read
To understand Russia's autocratic present, you must examine its past - although Russia's perception of that past is ever-shifting. Its founding myths have shaped its history right up to the present. "Russia is a country held together by ideas rooted in its distant past, histories continuously reconfigured and repurposed to suit its present needs
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes (Bloomsbury, £25) looks 900 years earlier, to the national myths that Putin exploited in his invasion of Ukraine. "The country's past will be reinvented by the Russian state as its needs change," Figes observes
A deeply impressive and deeply immersive book . . . The author sets out to reveal Russia's history, its people's perception of their past and the manifold ways in which those in power manipulate both events and legend to shape the present. It is a saga of multi-millennial identity politics
To understand Putin's paranoia, read this book on Russia's history
A lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from the nation's past have been used to shape its autocratic present
If you really want to understand Putin's Russia today, anchored in its past of myths, then you simply have to read Figes's superb account in The Story of Russia
An indispensable survey of more than 1,000 years of history shows how myth and fact mix dangerously in the tales this crucial country tells about itself
A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . its tsars and tyrants, wars and massacres, ideas and dreams vividly drawn, its analysis of Russian power and empire essential reading today
An expert on Russia delivers a crucially relevant study . . . A lucid, astute text that unpacks the myths of Russian history to help explain present-day motivations and actions
Urgent and revelatory and brilliantly told, it's all the things you pray a book will be when you first pick it up
Excellent short study
The historian's latest work on Russia is a lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from the nation's past have been used to shape its autocratic present
Figes skilfully assesses the evolution of the forms of government and society that inhibited the development of controls of the tsar
Accessible and epic . . . A great introduction to an enthralling subject
An impressive account of the ideas, myths and ideologies that have shaped that country and the way its people interpret the past . . . Figes's book offers a valuable, instructive overview
Anyone who wants to detox from Putin's mythomanic claims about Russia's history and what it means for today's world will find some relief in The Story of Russia . . . Figes presents Russia's history in a straightforward manner
Valuable book
[An] imaginative sweep and a capacity to encapsulate in a memorable way
Orlando Figes provides valuable lessons about the importance of mythologizing the country's past in his sweeping new survey of Russian history
Sweeping and concise . . . It is a skilled piece of compression
This is a brilliant condensation - his analysis of Soviet Russia is superb - of a seriously complex tale
The Story of Russia combines profound knowledge and understanding of the longer, deeper structural processes of history with the personal experience of an author seeking to understand what is happening on the ground today
Orlando Figes's latest book provides fascinating insights into this contemporary conundrum. The Story of Russia is a truly incisive and important dissection of Russia's troubled past, both real and mythical, but it also provides a crucial context for understanding the present
This book is a timely reminder of the malign uses to which history can be put
A brilliantly concentrated meditation on the power of myth and history, and the ability of both to form and deform and guide and misguide the present. Thoughtful, nuanced and above all persuasive, it shows how we are all trapped in the loops and coils of myth, memory and forgetting, and demonstrates the urgent need for historians to remember, and insist on the truth
Beautifully brief, The Story of Russia shows centuries of regimes that revisit their past to manipulate the future, and eternally start from the wrong place acting in venal self-interest rather than the true national interest
Given the news, Orlando Figes's short book could hardly be better timed ... His story abounds in strange and memorable characters, from emperors to writers. But it's the sheer sweep that impresses most, as he turns a potentially grim and overwhelming subject into a delightfully brisk and enjoyable read
To understand Russia's autocratic present, you must examine its past - although Russia's perception of that past is ever-shifting. Its founding myths have shaped its history right up to the present. "Russia is a country held together by ideas rooted in its distant past, histories continuously reconfigured and repurposed to suit its present needs
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes (Bloomsbury, £25) looks 900 years earlier, to the national myths that Putin exploited in his invasion of Ukraine. "The country's past will be reinvented by the Russian state as its needs change," Figes observes