Russia: A Year Chronicle of the Wild East Martin Sixsmith The Overlook Press (March ) Hardcover $ (pp) Given the well-documented deeds of Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Yeltsin, Gorbachev, and Putin, a casual geo-political history buff might get the mistaken idea that the brutal, seventy-year Communist experiment in. A clearly-written, informative and enjoyable account of the history of Russia, starting from over years back in the year Each period of Russian history is documented in sequence, giving the reader a good sense of the order in which events happened and the consequent influences on Russian society and the emerging character of the Russian people and their leaders/5(). Access Free Russia A Year Chronicle Of The Wild East Martin Sixsmith · With only about a third of Russia's million people vaccinated against COVID, the country has hovered near 1, reported deaths per day for weeks and surpassed it on Saturday — a.
Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a thousand years, and how it can help us understand its often baffling behaviour at home and abroad. Russia: A 1,Year Chronicle of the Wild East (Paperback) Published by BBC Books. First, Paperback, pages. Author (s): Martin Sixsmith. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English. He witnessed the end of the Cold War first-hand, reporting for the BBC from Moscow during the presidencies of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. He is the author of two novels and several works of non-fiction, including Philomena (a New York Times bestseller) and Russia: A 1, Year Chronicle of the Wild East. Martin lives in London.
A very breezy and accessible read and a super introduction to the topic, this book’s subtitle is nonetheless hugely misleading – ‘A 1,Year Chronicle of the Wild East’ overlooks the fact that, in a book stretching to pages, Peter the Great is dealt with by page 74 and Catherine the Great by page 99 while the Crimean War gets little but a passing mention and accounts of pre-revolutionary Russia form only a third of the book. As the BBC Moscow correspondent for almost twenty years, Sixsmith tells Russia's full and fascinating story, from its foundation in the last years of the tenth century to the first years of the twenty-first, skillfully tracing the conundrums of modern Russia to their roots in its troubled past. Covering politics, music, literature and art, he explores the myths Russians have created from their history. Martin Sixsmith brings his firsthand experience of reporting from Russia to this fascinating narrative, witnessing the critical moment when the Soviet Union finally lost its grip on power. Power struggles have a constant presence in his story, from the Mongol hordes that invaded in the 13th century, through the iron autocratic fists of successive Tsars.
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