Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London University. His latest book is The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia. (April 2009)

From the Review

April 30, 2009: Putin vs. the Truth

Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia by Jonathan Brent

January 15, 2009: The Raid on Memorial (letter)

November 22, 2007: Tolstoy's Real Hero

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy,translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

November 8, 2007: Rise of a Gangster

Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

May 10, 2007: Prokofiev Makes His Moves

Sergey Prokofiev: Diaries, 1907–1914: Prodigious Youth translated from the Russian and annotated by Anthony Phillips, with a preface by Sviatoslav Prokofiev

Sergey Prokofiev: Dnevnik [Diaries] 1907–1933 edited by Sviatoslav Prokofiev

December 21, 2006: Islam: The Russian Solution

For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia by Robert D. Crews

Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security by Shireen T. Hunter with Jeffrey L. Thomas and Alexander Melikishvili, and with a foreword by Ambassador James F. Collins

June 22, 2006: Anna the Great

Anna of All the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova by Elaine Feinstein

September 22, 2005: The Divine Terrorist

Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia by Isabel de Madariaga

June 9, 2005: The Fiddler's Children

The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine

December 2, 2004: What a Disaster!

Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March by Adam Zamoyski

July 15, 2004: The Shostakovich Case (letter)

June 10, 2004: The Truth About Shostakovich

A Shostakovich Casebook edited by Malcolm Hamrick Brown

Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator by Solomon Volkov, translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis

April 8, 2004: Murder, Russian Style (poem)

Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia's Mission to the Shah of Persia by Laurence Kelly

The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia by Richard Pipes

Lost Splendour:The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin by Prince Felix Youssoupoff, translated from the French by Ann Green and Nicholas Katkoff

January 15, 2004: Roughing It

Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000 by Stephen Lovell

October 23, 2003: In Search of Russia

Russia: Experiment with a People by Robert Service

Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall by Andrew Meier

June 12, 2003: Reconstructing Hell

Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum

March 13, 2003: The Greatest Relief Mission of All

The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 by Bertrand M. Patenaude