How Orlando Figes Culturally Invokes a New Russia In his Books
The role of historians is very tough to ascertain. Are they supposed the stay within the books and the world of academics and enrich the entire arena, or are they supposed to come up in the forefront and reach out to the world at large who are not aware of how exactly History works? While this constant tussle is on, Orlando Figes steps away ahead, and ranges out his popularity beyond the world of academia, and started growing some fame in general readership. This wasn’t an easy job at all since this has brought him lot of criticism from his fellow academicians. Some of them have even described him as historical journalists while the rest has accused him of taking the creative liberties with evidence.
But this has stopped him at all from coming up with books one after another that poses a ...