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The story of Russia / Orlando Figes.

By: Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 125079689X
  • 9781250796899
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 947 23
LOC classification:
  • DK17 .F54 2022
Contents:
Origins -- The Mongol impact -- Tsar and God -- Times of trouble -- Russia faces west -- The shadow of Napoleon -- An empire in crisis -- Revolutionary Russia -- The war on old Russia -- Motherland -- Ends.
Summary: "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 as it is with the events and personalities comprising it. No other country has reimagined its own story so often, in a perpetual effort to stay in step with the shifts of ruling ideologies"--Dust jacket flap.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks DK17 .F54 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001509073

Includes bibliographic references (pages 303-321) and index.

Origins -- The Mongol impact -- Tsar and God -- Times of trouble -- Russia faces west -- The shadow of Napoleon -- An empire in crisis -- Revolutionary Russia -- The war on old Russia -- Motherland -- Ends.

"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 as it is with the events and personalities comprising it. No other country has reimagined its own story so often, in a perpetual effort to stay in step with the shifts of ruling ideologies"--Dust jacket flap.

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