Orlando Figes

21 books

The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture by Orlando Figes

The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

Orlando Figes

483 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history music informative medium-paced
Historically Inevitable?: Turning Points of the Russian Revolution by Evan Mawdsley, Erik Landis, Donald Crawford, Tony Brenton, Boris Kolonitsky, Simon Dixon, Edvard Radzinsky, Richard Sakwa, Richard Pipes, Douglas Smith, Orlando Figes, Martin Sixsmith, Sean McMeekin, Dominic Lieven, Catriona Kelly

Historically Inevitable?: Turning Points of the Russian Revolution

Evan Mawdsley, Erik Landis, Donald Crawford, Tony Brenton, Boris Kolonitsky, Simon Dixon, Edvard Radzinsky, Richard Sakwa, Richard Pipes, Douglas Smith, Orlando Figes, Martin Sixsmith, Sean McMeekin, Dominic Lieven, Catriona Kelly

385 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective medium-paced
Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917 by Boris Kolonitskii, Orlando Figes

Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917

Boris Kolonitskii, Orlando Figes

208 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Orlando Figes

Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

Orlando Figes

352 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

373 pages • first pub 1966 (editions)

fiction classics literary magical realism adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

Orlando Figes

729 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution 1917-21 by Orlando Figes

Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution 1917-21

Orlando Figes

428 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
Revolutionary Russia, 1891 - 1991: A History by Orlando Figes

Revolutionary Russia, 1891 - 1991: A History

Orlando Figes

336 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

1399 pages • first pub 1869 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

Orlando Figes

739 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history dark tense slow-paced