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

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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