Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes ( born November 20, 1959 in London ) is a British historian and since 1999 professor of newer and more recent Russian history at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Life

His mother is the British writer and feminist Eva Figes. Figes studied history at Cambridge University, where he held the academic position of a fellow and lecturer in Russian history took after the completion of his studies and the acquisition of a doctoral degree in 1984, a position he held until 1999. About the experts but also he became famous with the publication of his book on the history of the Russian Revolutions, " The tragedy of a people ," for which he was awarded several times by the published subsequently in nearly all major newspapers of Britain as well as the New York Times articles on this topic. His second important work, " The Whisperers. Life in Stalin's Russia " has been translated into some 20 languages. In Germany, he wrote for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Welt.

Figes excited 2009/2010 with bogus online reviews quite a stir. He had panned under a pseudonym as a supposed layman the works of colleagues in the so-called customer reviews on amazon.co.uk and praised his own works.

In 2012 his work was The Whisperers on the basis of Russian original interviews criticized that she used for the book Figes. Some of the statements made ​​by the British historians are not covered by the interviews. Critics accused Figes with an enormous inaccuracies and errors. A planned Russian edition of The Whisperers is thereby delayed or hardly possible.

Awards

Works

  • A People 's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924. Pimlico, London 1996, ISBN 0-7126-7327- X. Translation: The tragedy of a people. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-8270-0243-5.
  • Translation: Natasha's Dance. A cultural history of Russia. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8270-0487- X.
  • Translation: The Whisperers. Life in Stalin's Russia. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8270-0745-2.
  • Translation: the Crimean War. The Last Crusade. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8270-1028-5.
  • Translation: Send a greeting, sometimes through the stars. A story of love and survival in times of terror Hanser, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-24031-5
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