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The Story of Russia

By: Orlando Figes
Narrated by: David Sibley
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Bloomsbury presents The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes, read by David Sibley.


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

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From the great storyteller of Russia, a spellbinding account of the stories that have shaped the country’s past – and how they can inform its present.

No other country has been so divided over its own past as Russia. None has changed its story so often. How the Russians came to tell their story, and to reinvent it as they went along, is a vital aspect of their history, their culture and beliefs. To understand what Russia’s future holds – to grasp what Putin’s regime means for Russia and the world – we need to unravel the ideas and meanings of that history.

In The Story of Russia, Orlando Figes brings into sharp relief the vibrant characters that comprise Russia’s rich history, and whose stories remain so important in making sense of the world’s largest nation today – from the crowning of sixteen-year-old Ivan the Terrible in a candlelit cathedral, to Catherine the Great, riding out in a green uniform to arrest her husband at his palace, to the bitter last days of the Romanovs.

Beautifully written and based on a lifetime of scholarship, The Story of Russia is a major and definitive work from the great storyteller of Russian history: sweeping, suspenseful, masterful.

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©2022 Orlando Figes (P)2022 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Very informative

A good story all in all, I’m very informative about the history of Russia from the beginning of time. Also, good to know how many leaders with their own personalities their own prejudice and belief can affect a whole nation of hundreds of millions of people. What their communist leaders did during the last centuries must have been bad as the general opinion goes, but no one really knows. The bottom line is that those leaders affected the whole nation with their personal beliefs.

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Well taught History

I am grateful to Orlando Figes because after reading and listening to THE STORY OF RUSSIA and A PEOPLE’S TRAGEDY, I’ve come to liking a subject I used to hate when at school.

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the book that Is needed

I was a bit sceptical about the author ( controverse in the past did damage his reputation quite a bit) but I must say this is a very good and insightful book about Russia, it's rulers and it's people. it is up to date ( until April 2022) it's accessable, it doesn't sugarcoat events, and you learn quite a lot. The voice reading was excellent , I did speed up a little (1,05x).

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Required reading to understand Russia

The sum of the parts make up the whole and by understanding the parts making up Russia helps to understand the whole of where it finds itself.

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