Orlando Figes

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 thousand-year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian scholarship' – SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE ‘A great historian at...

Natasha's Dance by Orlando Figes is an enthralling exploration of Russian culture and identity that spans centuries and geographical boundaries. The book intricately weaves a rich tapestry of stories and characters, illuminating the evolution of Russia from the splendour of 18th-century St Petersburg to the relentless drive of Stalinist propaganda. Through an evocative narrative, Figes brings to life an extraordinary...

The unrivalled, definitive history beautifully reissued with a new introduction for the 100th anniversary. Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving, and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today. 'A modern masterpiece' — Andrew Marr 'The most moving account of the Russian Revolution since Doctor Zhivago' — Independent Opening with...

The acclaimed historical portrait of the love triangle between an opera star, a writer and an impresario - and their role in Europe's 19th-century cultural Renaissance. The Europeans is a richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of nineteenth-century Europe, told through the intertwined lives of three remarkable people: a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a great...

A Pelican introduction to the century of Russia's revolutionary experience What caused the Russian Revolution? Did it succeed or fail? Why are we still all living with its consequences? In his remarkable new book, Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991, Orlando Figes describes and takes apart the story of Russia's century of revolution in the shortest space possible. Starting with the horrific famines...

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 thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian scholarship’ SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE ‘A great historian at the...

On the brink of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, read the most vivid, moving, and comprehensive history of the events that changed the world It 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 is a profound account of the Russian...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews "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 neighbours, with America, and with the West." --Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy and Red Famine From "the great storyteller...

Crimea by Orlando Figes is a masterful recounting of the tumultuous and devastating Crimean War that gripped the mid-19th century. This war, which resulted in the deaths of at least 800,000 men, saw Russia up against a formidable coalition of Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire. The conflict was driven by multiple motives: territorial ambition, religious fervour, and the fear...