Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes is a British and German historian and writer known for his works on Russian history. His A People's Tragedy (1996) is a study of the Russian Revolution that pairs social and political history with biographical detail, and it sits beside Natasha's Dance, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia, Crimea and Just Send Me Word. He has written on wider European history in The Europeans and The Crimean War: A History. Before retiring in 2022, he was a professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London.