Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author, among other books, of The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia, A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891–1924, and Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia. His latest book is The Crimean War: A History. (January 2012)
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Stalin’s Favorite Novel?
February 23, 2012
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A Double Game with Stalin
January 12, 2012
Collaborators a play by by John Hodge, directed by Nicholas Hytner
Collaborators
by John Hodge
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A Great Russian Writer in the Communist Cauldron
April 29, 2010
The Foundation Pit
by Andrey Platonov, translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson, and with an afterword by Robert Chandler and Olga Meerson
Soul and Other Stories
by Andrey Platonov, translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, with Katia Grigoruk, Angela Livingstone, Olga Meerson, and Eric Naiman, and with an afterword by John Berger
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Putin vs. the Truth
April 30, 2009
Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia
by Jonathan Brent
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The Raid on Memorial
January 15, 2009
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Tolstoy’s Real Hero
November 22, 2007
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy,translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
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Rise of a Gangster
November 8, 2007
Young Stalin
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Prokofiev Makes His Moves
May 10, 2007
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
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Islam: The Russian Solution
December 21, 2006
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
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Anna the Great
June 22, 2006
Anna of All the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova
by Elaine Feinstein
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The Divine Terrorist
September 22, 2005
Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia
by Isabel de Madariaga
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The Fiddler’s Children
June 9, 2005
The Jewish Century
by Yuri Slezkine
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What a Disaster!
December 2, 2004
Moscow 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March
by Adam Zamoyski
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The Shostakovich Case
July 15, 2004
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The Truth About Shostakovich
June 10, 2004
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
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Murder, Russian Style
April 8, 2004
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
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Roughing It
January 15, 2004
Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000
by Stephen Lovell
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In Search of Russia
October 23, 2003
Russia: Experiment with a People
by Robert Service
Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall
by Andrew Meier
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Reconstructing Hell
June 12, 2003
Gulag: A History
by Anne Applebaum
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The Greatest Relief Mission of All
March 13, 2003
The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921
by Bertrand M. Patenaude