"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...

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...

"Nataschas Tanz: Kulturgeschichte Russlands" von Orlando Figes ist ein umfassendes Werk, das die reiche und komplexe kulturelle Entwicklung Russlands von der Zeit der Zaren bis ins 20. Jahrhundert nachzeichnet. Figes untersucht in diesem...

"The Crimean War: A History" von Orlando Figes bietet eine umfassende Darstellung des Krimkriegs, der von 1853 bis 1856 zwischen Russland und einer Allianz aus dem Osmanischen Reich, Frankreich, Großbritannien und Sardinien geführt...

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Peasant Russia, Civil War, A People's Tragedy, Natasha's Dance, The Whisperers, Crimea and Just Send Me Word. His work has won a number...

"War and Peace" von Leo Tolstoy, in der Ausgabe "Penguin Clothbound Classics" mit einem Vorwort von Orlando Figes, ist ein epischer Roman, der das Schicksal mehrerer aristokratischer Familien im Russland des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts...

This multi-award book is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, "A People's Tragedy" offers a profound account of the Russian...

"The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia" von Orlando Figes ist ein eindringliches historisches Werk, das das Leben gewöhnlicher Menschen in der Sowjetunion unter Stalins Herrschaft beleuchtet. Figes nutzt eine Vielzahl von...

From the "master of historical narrative" (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work-the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture.The nineteenth century in Europe was a time of unprecedented...

'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the 19th century - and so much more'...

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Peasant Russia, Civil War, A People's Tragedy, Natasha's Dance and The Whisperers. He lives in Cambridge and London. His books have been...

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. His books include A People's Tragedy and Natasha's Dance. von Figes, Orlando