A book by the famous British historian was not published in Russia because the Moscow publisher discovered too many errors and misrepresentations—not, as Figes suggested, for political reasons. By ...

Orlando Figes is a British historian who has taught at both Cambridge University and the University of London. His latest book, The Story Of Russia, describes how President Vladimir Putin has used the ...

Even if one takes nothing else away from this elegant, tightly focused survey of Russian culture, it's impossible to forget the telling little anecdotes that University of London history professor ...

For decades Russians old enough to remember Stalinism despaired whenever a foreigner asked: How was life in those times? The best way to respond was to roll one's eyes and spread one's arms. Where to ...

The future of one of Britain's leading historians was looking increasingly uncertain tonight after he admitted that he was the author of anonymous reviews that praised his own work as "fascinating" ...

For a good three decades, the British historian Orlando Figes has been one of the West’s premier historians of the Soviet era, receiving considerable acclaim for 1996’s “A People’s Tragedy” and 2002’s ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. Next month sees the publication of Orlando Figes's history of the Crimean war, Crimea: The ...

She explored life after childbirth, marriage, infidelity and other topics, and recalled a difficult relationship with her mother, also a feminist author. By Hephzibah Anderson LONDON — Kate Figes, a ...

A leading historian has admitted writing anonymous online reviews condemning his rivals' work. Orlando Figes, a professor at London's Birkbeck College and the author of many books on Russian history, ...

Many western observers believe that Vladimir Putin's authoritarian regime has in effect banned a Russian edition of a widely acclaimed 2007 book by the British historian Orlando Figes, The Whisperers: ...

London Re Peter Reddaway and Stephen F. Cohen’s June 11 “Dishonoring Stalin’s Victims,” about my 2007 book The Whisperers: in a book as large and complex as The Whisperers unintended errors are not ...