TY - BOOK AU - Figes,Orlando TI - The story of Russia SN - 125079689X AV - DK17 .F54 2022 U1 - 947 23 PY - 2022/// CY - New York PB - Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company KW - Russia (Federation) KW - History KW - Russia KW - Soviet Union N1 - Includes bibliographic references (pages 303-321) and index; Origins -- The Mongol impact -- Tsar and God -- Times of trouble -- Russia faces west -- The shadow of Napoleon -- An empire in crisis -- Revolutionary Russia -- The war on old Russia -- Motherland -- Ends N2 - "The Story of Russia is a fresh approach to the thousand years of Russia's history, concerned as much with the ideas that have shaped how Russians think about their past as it is with the events and personalities comprising it. No other country has reimagined its own story so often, in a perpetual effort to stay in step with the shifts of ruling ideologies"--Dust jacket flap ER -