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

From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" (Financial Times) comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age.The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale-these are the enduring icons...

"The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture" von Orlando Figes ist ein historisches Sachbuch, das die Entstehung einer gemeinsamen europäischen Kultur im 19. Jahrhundert beleuchtet. Im Mittelpunkt stehen drei...

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. His last book, A PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY (Cape 1996), won the NCR Book Award, the Wolfson History Prize, the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award and the...

History on a grand scale--an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizationsA People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other...

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...

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Born in London in 1959, he was previously a Lecturer in History and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. A People¿s Tragedy received the Wolfson Prize, the...

"Die Tragödie eines Volkes: Die Epoche der russischen Revolution 1891-1924" von Orlando Figes ist eine umfassende historische Darstellung der russischen Revolution und ihrer weitreichenden Auswirkungen auf das Land und seine Bevölkerung....

"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...