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...

"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...