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Russia – Myths and Realities
Publisher:
PROFILE BOOKS
| Author:
Rodric Braithwaite
| Language:
English
| Format:
Hardback
Publisher:
PROFILE BOOKS
Author:
Rodric Braithwaite
Language:
English
Format:
Hardback
₹699 ₹524
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9781800811881
Category History
Category: History
Page Extent:
288
A TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 222 ‘Wise and thorough’ The Spectator ‘Brisk and readable … very valuable’ Financial Times ‘He is an engaging guide … and writes with the same flair demonstrated in his previous bestseller Afgantsy’ The Sunday Telegraph ‘A scholarly yet highly readable gallop through the last 1 years of Russian history … To understand this tormented nation, you can do no better than read this illuminating portrait’ Jonathan Dimbleby Russia is the largest country in the world, with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. Over a thousand years this multifaceted nation of shifting borders has been known as Rus, Muscovy, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union. Thirty years ago it was reinvented as the Russian Federation. Russia is not an enigma, but its past is violent, tragic, sometimes glorious, and certainly complicated. Like the rest of us, the Russians constantly rewrite their history. They too omit episodes of national disgrace in favour of patriotic anecdotes, sometimes more rooted in myth than reality. Expert and former ambassador Rodric Braithwaite unpicks fact from fiction to discover what lies at the root of the Russian story.
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A TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 222 ‘Wise and thorough’ The Spectator ‘Brisk and readable … very valuable’ Financial Times ‘He is an engaging guide … and writes with the same flair demonstrated in his previous bestseller Afgantsy’ The Sunday Telegraph ‘A scholarly yet highly readable gallop through the last 1 years of Russian history … To understand this tormented nation, you can do no better than read this illuminating portrait’ Jonathan Dimbleby Russia is the largest country in the world, with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. Over a thousand years this multifaceted nation of shifting borders has been known as Rus, Muscovy, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union. Thirty years ago it was reinvented as the Russian Federation. Russia is not an enigma, but its past is violent, tragic, sometimes glorious, and certainly complicated. Like the rest of us, the Russians constantly rewrite their history. They too omit episodes of national disgrace in favour of patriotic anecdotes, sometimes more rooted in myth than reality. Expert and former ambassador Rodric Braithwaite unpicks fact from fiction to discover what lies at the root of the Russian story.
About Author
Rodric Braithwaite was British Ambassador to Moscow during the crucial years of 1988-92. Subsequently he was foreign policy advisor to John Major. His books include the highly praised and bestselling Afgantsy and Moscow 1941. He lives in London.
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