Orlando Solidify

Orlando Solidify , born in 1959 with London, is a British Historien, specialist in the Histoire of Russia and professor in Birkbeck College of London. It contributes regularly to the newspaper The Guardian and to the reviews London Review off Books and New York Review off Books .

Biography

Orlando Figes is the son of the feminist writer Eva Figes and brother of the editor Kate Figes. He studies the history with the Université of Cambridge, with the Gonville and Caius College of which he leaves major promotion in 1982. He is researcher in Cambridge of 1987 to 1999, year as from which he occupies the pulpit of history of Birkbeck College.

Orlando Figes wrote many works on the history of Russia, which were a great success in the Anglo-Saxon world. One can in particular quote has People' S Tragedy: Russian Revolution 1891-1924 and Natasha' S Dance: In Farming History off Russia , books in which it combines qualities of historian and writer. Its work presents a style innovative Historiographique and is often attached to the cultural Histoire. has People' S Tragedy is regarded as a reference in the new school of the narrative history.

Price

  • 1997 - Wolfson History Prize
  • 1997 - WH Smith Literary Award
  • 1997 - NCR Book Award
  • 1997 - Longman-History Today Book Prize
  • 1997 - Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Works

  • Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution, 1917-21 , 1989,
  • the Russian Revolution. 1891-1924: the tragedy of people (foreword of Marc Ferro), Denoël Editions, 2007 (original edition: has People' S Tragedy: Russian Revolution 1891-1924 , 1996).
  • with Boris Kolonitskii, Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols off 1917 , 1999,
  • Natasha' S Dance: In Farming History off Russia , 2002,

See too

Internal bonds

External bond

  • Personal site

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