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Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs

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

29 Nov 2022

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Send us a textJoin 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.The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.Footnotes:Books by Orlando FigesCrimean WarVladimir PutinAnti-Russian SentimentNicolas II of RussiaWars Involving RussiaOttoman EmpireTreaty of Paris 1856Lord Palmerston The Crimean War Crises of 1853Anglo-Russian WarForeign Policy of the Russian EmpireMikhail GorbachevSoviet UnionAnnexation of CrimeaUkraine War Nikita KhrushchevCossacksRussian OligarchsNATO⭐️ Thank you for listening!➡️ Sign up for the newsletter: https://bit.ly/subscribeBCJS➡️ Website: bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org 🎉 Don't forget to subscribe and share your favorite episode with your friends! 📣 Leave a rating and tell us what you thought about this episode!

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