The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia ANNE APPLEBAUM....
A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian scholarship SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
A great historian at the peak of his powers WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
[An] excellent short study MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES
If you really want to understand Putins Russia today, anchored in its past of myths, then you simply have to read Figess superb account ANTONY BEEVOR
A lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from the nations past have been used to shape its autocratic present OBSERVER
A valuable, instructive overview INDEPENDENT.....
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History
The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia ANNE APPLEBAUM
A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian scholarship SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
A great historian at the peak of his powers WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
[An] excellent short study MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES
If you really want to understand Putins Russia today, anchored in its past of myths, then you simply have to read Figess superb account ANTONY BEEVOR
A lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from the nations past have been used to shape its autocratic present OBSERVER
A valuable, instructive overview INDEPENDENT
