Yapı Kredi Yayınları The Story of Russia

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In "a people's history of russia," orlando figes offers a fresh perspective on russia's thousand-year history, focusing not only on the events and figures that shaped it but also on the ideas that have influenced russians' understanding of their past. The russians are one of the most enduring nations in history, constantly reflecting on their own story while striving to keep pace with the shifting dominant ideologies in their geography. Figes, in doing justice to this phenomenon, investigates the stories behind the long historical process that russia has experienced, from the establishment of the kiev rus principality in the 1st millennium to putin's war with ukraine.

A comprehensive and insightful exploration of the national myths that have shaped russia's history and politics, and their impact on ideologies. it traces russia's narrative from the coronation ceremony of the terrifying ivan, illuminated by the light of candles in a cathedral, to the dramatic upheavals of the peasant revolution. it delves into the medieval legend of russia as mother russia's sacred mission to the world, and culminates in the nationalist rhetoric surrounding russia's perceived mistreatment by the west. If you want to understand modern russia and its wars with ukraine, its neighbors, america, and the west, this is the essential history book that provides the fundamental background story you need. Anne applebaum, author of *twilight of democracy* and *red famine*, and orlando figes, a preeminent chronicler of russian history.

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