Name: The Story of Russia (en Inglés)
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Author: Orlando Figes
ISBN: 9781250871398

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Orlando Figes

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Metropolitan Books

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Inglés

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368

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Tapa Blanda

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9781250871398

The Story of Russia (en Inglés)

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"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."--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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Orlando Figes (Londres, 1959) es un historiador británico, nacionalizado alemán en 2017, especializado en la historia de Rusia y Europa del Este. Se formó en la Universidad de Cambridge y fue profesor en el Trinity College y en el Birkbeck College de la Universidad de Londres hasta su jubilación en 2022. Es conocido por su enfoque narrativo y accesible en obras de historia cultural y política, y es miembro de la Royal Society of Literature desde 2003.

Entre sus libros más destacados se encuentran La tragedia de un pueblo: La revolución rusa, 1891-1924 (1996), galardonado con el Premio Wolfson; El baile de Natasha: Una historia cultural de Rusia (2002); Los que susurran: La represión en la Rusia de Stalin (2007); y La historia de Rusia (2022). Sus obras han sido traducidas a más de treinta idiomas y han sido reconocidas por su profundidad analítica y estilo literario.

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