No other country has been so divided over its own past as Russia. 'A lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from the nation's past have been used to shape its autocratic present' OBSERVERįrom the great storyteller of Russia, a spellbinding account of the stories that have shaped the country's past – and how they can inform its present. ' If you really want to understand Putin's Russia today, anchored in its past of myths, then you simply have to read Figes's superb account ' ANTONY BEEVOR ' excellent short study' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES ' A great historian at the peak of his powers' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE by one of the masters of Russian scholarship' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE 'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia. 'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM
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