Orlando Figes, Author . Holt/Metropolitan $35 (544p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5783-6
Even if one takes nothing else away from this elegant, tightly focused survey of Russian culture, it's impossible to forget the telling little anecdotes that University of London history professor Figes (A People's Tragedy) relates about...
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Orlando Figes, Author . Holt $35 (739p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7461-1
One in eight people in the Soviet Union were victims of Stalin's terror—virtually no family was untouched by purges, the gulag, forced collectivization and resettlement, says Figes in this nuanced, highly textured look at personal life...
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Orlando Figes. Holt/Metropolitan, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9522-7
Drawing on more than 1,200 letters between Lev and Svetlana “Sveta” Mishchenko, and interviews with the couple, veteran historian Figes (The Crimean War) tells their remarkable tale of love and devotion during the worst years of the USSR. Having...
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Orlando Figes. Metropolitan, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9131-1
Figes (A People’s Tragedy) covers familiar terrain in his new account of Russia and its revolution with a sharp and confident analysis. He presents a centurylong revolution stretching from 1891 to 1991, and divides it into three phases: the rise of...
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Orlando Figes, Author, Boris Kolonitsk, Author, Boris Kolonitskii, Joint Author Yale University Press $60 (208p) ISBN 978-0-300-08106-0
In this scholarly reduction of the Russian Revolution, Figes (A People's Tragedy, etc.), professor of history at Birbeck College, London, and Kolonitskii, senior researcher at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg,...
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Orlando Figes, Author, Professor Orlando Figes, Author, Figes, Author Viking Books $39.95 (960p) ISBN 978-0-670-85916-0
Packed with vivid human detail and incident, British historian Figes's monumental social and political history spans Russia's entire revolutionary period, from the czarist government's floundering during the famine of 1891 to Lenin's death in 1924,...
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Orlando Figes. Metropolitan, $37.50 (688p) ISBN 978-1-62779-214-1
Figes (Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia) weaves this excellent, wide-ranging history of 19th-century Europe around three people: the opera singer Pauline Viardot (1821–1910); her husband, the art critic, theater manager, and translator...
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Orlando Figes. Metropolitan, $29.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-79689-9
“No other country has reimagined its past so frequently,” writes historian Figes (The Europeans) in this rich and immersive look at how Russia’s national myths are “continuously reconfigured and repurposed to suit its present needs and reimagine its
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