Because certainly after 2014, it struck me increasingly that the way the Russians understood their history was very different from the way we would understand their history, especially those bits of history that connect with ours, like the Cold War. “I wanted to do a relatively short, accessible and enjoyable volume of history from the earliest times, and I thought it was important to do it in a way that exposed the driving ideas and ideologies of Russian history. Not only does the book make you think about Russia, it also makes you think about the history of every country and the power of these ‘imagined communities.’” Read more. It was built in 1853…high up on the right bank of the Dnieper River overlooking Kiev.’ As he notes, “What we have in the conflict over Volodymr/Vladimir is not a genuine historical dispute, but two incompatible foundation myths.” The book is a highly readable overview of more than a millennium of Russian history in fewer than 300 pages with, as the title suggests, an eye on the ‘story’ that’s being told and how it is relevant to the present. ‘They had their own statue of grand prince, Volodymyr as they call him. ‘The Ukrainians were furious,’ Figes writes. “The book opens in 2016 with the unveiling of a statue in front of the Kremlin to Grand Prince Vladimir, ruler of Kievan Rus, ‘the first Russian state’, between 9. Foreign Policy & International Relations.
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