Orlando Figes
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From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" comes the definitive account of the Crimean War, a forgotten war that shaped the modern age. Figes reconstructs the first full conflagration of modernity, a global industrialized struggle fought with unusual ferocity and incompetence.
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Investigates the history of Russia through a study of not only its key historical and contemporary figures, but more importantly the ideas that have shaped Russian collective consciousness and the shifting interpretation of their own history--from the founding Kievan Rus Vikings in the first millennium up through the Russian Revolution and the modern Putin regime and its war against Ukraine.
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"The nineteenth century in Europe was the first age of cultural globalization-an epoch when mass communications and high-speed rail travel brought Europe together, overcoming national barriers and creating a truly pan-European canon of artistic, musical, and literary works. By 1900, people across the continent were reading the same books, looking at the same art, and attending the same opera performances. Acclaimed historian Orlando Figes moves from...