Season 2, Episode 8: Orlando Figes: The Story of Russia

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Join Professors Jeffrey Sachs and Orlando Figes, historian and
author of The Crimean War (2012) and his new book, The Story of
Russia (2022), in a fascinating discussion of Russian history and
ideas about Russian history.


Together, they examine the 19th century Crimean War and the
powerful light that the Crimean War, 170 years ago, sheds on the
current conflict in Ukraine. More generally, Sachs and Figes
explore Russia’s complex relationship with the West, and the
ideas that Russian and Western thinkers and politicians have held
about Western-Russian international relations throughout
history.



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Footnotes:


Books by Orlando Figes

Crimean War

Vladimir Putin

Anti-Russian Sentiment

Nicolas II of Russia

Wars Involving Russia

Ottoman Empire

Treaty of Paris 1856

Lord Palmerston 

The Crimean War Crises of 1853

Anglo-Russian War

Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire

Mikhail Gorbachev

Soviet Union

Annexation of Crimea

Ukraine War 

Nikita Khrushchev

Cossacks

Russian Oligarchs

NATO



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