Orlando Figes is een internationaal geroemde auteur van vele boeken over Rusland en de Sovjet-Unie, zoals Natasja's dans, De tragedie van een volk, Fluisteraars, De Krimoorlog en Revolutionair Rusland. In 2019 verscheen bij Nieuw Amsterdam Europeanen. Figes is hoogleraar geschiedenis aan het Birkbeck College, London University.
Meer over Orlando FigesWhat caused the Russian Revolution? Did it succeed or fail?Do we still live with its consequences? Orlando Figes teaches history at Birkbeck, University of London and is the author of many acclaimed books on Russian history, including A People's Tragedy, which The Times Literary Supplement named as one of the '100 most influential books since the war', Natasha's Dance, The Whisperers, Crimea and Just Send Me Word. The Financial Times called him 'the greatest storyteller of modern Russian historians.'
