The Story of Russia

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If you really want to understand Putin's Russia today, anchored in its past of myths, then you simply have to read Figes's superb account in The Story of Russia.' ANTONY BEEVOR. 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. T his story begins in the first millennium, when the Viking-Slavic state of Kievan Rus was formed, and ends with Putin's war against Ukraine. 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.