The Story of Russia
- Format: Innbundet
- Antall sider: 368
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9781526631749
- Utgivelsesår: 2022
- Bidragsyter: Figes, Orlando
349,-
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 DALRYMPLE''[An] excellent short study¿ MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES¿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¿ ANTONY BEEVOR''A lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from the nation¿s past have been used to shape its autocratic present¿ OBSERVER''A valuable, instructive overview''INDEPENDENT -------------------------From the great storyteller of Russia, a spellbinding ac