Reader Score
85%
85% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
Great
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"This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West."
--Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy and Red Famine
Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews
"An indispensable manual for making sense of Russia's present . . . The Story of Russia shows how myth and fact mix dangerously in the tales this crucial country tells about itself."
--The Guardian
"A lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from Russia's past have been used to shape its autocratic present."
--The Observer