No other country has reimagined its own story so often, in a perpetual effort to stay in step with the shifts of ruling ideologies.įrom 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. 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. Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviewsįrom “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 ―Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy and Red Famine “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.”
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