The Story of Russia av Orlando Figes

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<b>A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: <i>Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History</i></b><b>¿The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia'' </b>ANNE APPLEBAUM<b>¿A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian scholarship'' </b>SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE<b>¿</b><b>A great historian at the peak of his powers'' </b>WILLIAM DALRYMPLE<b>''[An] excellent short study¿ </b>MAX HASTINGS, <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i><b>¿</b><b>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</b><b>¿ </b>ANTONY BEEVOR<b><i>''</i>A lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from the nation¿s past have been used to shape its autocratic present¿ </b><i>OBSERVER</i><b>''A valuable, instructive overview''</b><i>INDEPENDENT </i>-------------------------<b>From the great storyteller of Russia, a spellbinding ac