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    A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution - centenary edition with new introduction

    Orlando Figes

    Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants, this book follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as…

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    The Story of Russia

    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…

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    The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

    Orlando Figes

    Vivid and insightful, this text shows how such cosmopolitan, ferment-shaped artistic traditions came to dominate world culture.

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    Crimea

    Orlando Figes

    The Crimean War one of the fiercest battles in Russia’s history, killing nearly a million men and completely redrawing the map of Europe. Bringing to life soldiers in snow-filled trenches…

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    The Story of Russia

    Orlando Figes

    "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…

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    Natasha’s Dance

    Orlando Figes

    Beginning in the 18th century with the building of St. Petersburg and culminating with the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia…

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    The White Guard

    Mikhail Bulgakov

    As Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, this is a highly topical reprint of Bulgakov's classic novel. Set in his native Kyiv in 1918, it vividly dramatizes a critical and contested…

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    Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A Pelican Introduction

    Orlando Figes

    What caused the Russian Revolution? Did it succeed or fail? Do we still live with its consequences? This book deals with these questions.

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    Orlando Figes

    High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Orlando Figes ( / faId i z/; born 20 November 1959) is a British historian of Russia, and Professor of History at Birkbeck, University…

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    The White Guard

    Mikhail Bulgakov

    Bulgakov's brilliant novel, first published in 1925, portrays his beloved city of Kiev as it is torn apart during a few crucial weeks in 1918, seen through the eyes of…

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    War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy

    At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. In this book, the author entwines grand themes - conflict and love…

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    The Europeans

    Orlando Figes

    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…

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    A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution

    Orlando Figes

    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…

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    The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

    Orlando Figes

    Vivid and insightful, this text shows how such cosmopolitan, ferment-shaped artistic traditions came to dominate world culture.

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    The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia

    Orlando Figes

    Explores the inner life of a Russia where everyone was afraid to talk and society spoke in whispers, whether to protect friends and family - or to betray them. In…

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    Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

    Orlando Figes

    A history of Russia’s mighty culture. It covers the lives of those who have shaped its culture, and the enduring spirit of a people.

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    The Story of Russia

    Orlando Figes

    A publishing event from one of our most gifted storytellers- the expansive and enthralling history of Russia, from its foundations to the present.

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    Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

    Orlando Figes

    Lev and Svetlana, kept apart for fourteen years by the Second World War and the Gulag, stayed true to each other and exchanged thousands of secret letters as Lev battled…

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    The Story of Russia

    Orlando Figes

    "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…

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    The Master and Margarita

    Mikhail Bulgakov

    A fully annotated translation of the most complete text of Bulgakov’s exuberant comic masterpiece.

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    The Master and Margarita

    Mikhail Bulgakov

    Mikhail Bulgakov’s astonishing Russian masterpiece, which has been translated into more than twenty languages, with an introduction by Orlando Figes.

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    War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs (trans.)

    At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon’s army marches on Russia, and…

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    The Crimean War: A History

    Fellow Orlando Figes (Trinity College, Cambridge)

    From the great storyteller of modern Russian historians, ( Financial Times ) comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age. Figes reconstructs the first full…

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    Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History

    Fellow Orlando Figes (Trinity College, Cambridge)

    Presenting a new perspective on the Russian Revolution, a noted historian traces three generational phases to show how the revolution, while it changed in form and character, retained the same…

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    The Story of Russia

    Orlando Figes

    From the great storyteller of Russian history, a brilliantly colored account of the myths that have shaped and reshaped Russia’s identity and politics from its founding

    Who were the Rus…

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    War and Peace: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Leo Tolstoy

    At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon’s army marches on Russia, and…

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    The Crimean War: A History

    Fellow Orlando Figes (Trinity College, Cambridge)

    From the great storyteller of modern Russian historians, ( Financial Times ) comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age. Figes reconstructs the first full…

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    Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917

    Orlando Figes,Boris Kolonitsk, II,Boris Kolonitskii, II

    An analysis of the political culture of the Russian Revolution. It examines the diverse ways in which language and other symbols -including flags and emblems, codes of dress, songs and…

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