![]() The Story of Russia is about the stories the Russians have told of their past, and the ideas that have shaped those stories, as much as it is about the events and institutions, social groups and leaders that make up that history. ![]() ![]() Spanning the medieval myths of Russia’s holy mission, the popular belief in a paternal tsar and the notion of the ‘Russian soul’, Orlando Figes explores the ideas that have guided the country’s actions throughout its long and troubled history. ![]() This story begins in the first millennium, when the Viking-Slavic state of Kievan Rus was formed, and ends with Putin’s war against Ukraine. No other country has reimagined its own past so frequently, or endured such vast differences in ruling ideologies, as Russia. then you simply have to read Figes’s superb account in The Story of Russia’ Antony Beevorįrom the great storyteller of Russia, a spellbinding account of the myths and ideologies that have shaped the country’s past – and how they can inform its present. ‘If you really want to understand Putin’s Russia today. by one of the masters of Russian scholarship’ Simon Sebag Montefiore ‘A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia. ![]()
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