Para comprender lo que depara el futuro del país -y lo que significa el régimen de Putin para Rusia y para el resto del mundo-, debemos desentrañar las ideas y los significados de esa historia. Ningún otro país ha reinventado su propio relato con tanta frecuencia, en un esfuerzo perpetuo por adaptarse a los cambios de las ideologías dominantes, y esa tendencia es precisamente un aspecto vital de su cultura. La historia de Rusia se ha visto marcada como pocas por el empleo de mitos con fines políticos. ANTONY BEEVOR Orlando Figes, el gran especialista en Rusia, ofrece una nueva historia que da sentido al presente. «Si de verdad quieren entender la Rusia de Putin, anclada en su pasado de mitos, lean este excelente libro». «Este es el libro de historia que necesitan para entender la Rusia moderna y sus guerras con Ucrania, con sus demás vecinos, con Estados Unidos y con Occidente». Here, Figes brings into sharp relief the recurrent themes that remain so important in understanding the country today through the vibrant characters of its rich history: from Boris and Gleb, the first saints of the Russian Church, to the crowning of sixteen-year-old Ivan the Terrible in a candlelit cathedral and from Catherine the Great, riding out in a green uniform to arrest her husband at his palace, to the bitter last days of the Romanovs.īeautifully written and based on a lifetime of scholarship, The Story of Russia is quintessential Figes: sweeping, suspenseful, masterful.Book Synopsis MEJOR LIBRO DEL AÑO 2022 EN Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History Uno de los libros más esperados según Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews The Story of Russia is about the stories the Russians have told of their past, and the ideas that have shaped those stories, as much as it is about the events and institutions, social groups and leaders that make up that history.

Spanning the medieval myths of Russia's holy mission, the popular belief in a paternal tsar and the notion of the 'Russian soul', Orlando Figes explores the ideas that have guided the country's actions throughout its long and troubled history. This story begins in the first millennium, when the Viking-Slavic state of Kievan Rus was formed, and ends with Putin's war against Ukraine. No other country has reimagined its own past so frequently, or endured such vast differences in ruling ideologies, as Russia. From the great storyteller of Russia, a spellbinding account of the myths and ideologies that have shaped the country's past - and how they can inform its present.

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