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Orlando Figes

British and German historian and writer · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1959 · age 66

Orlando Guy Figes is a British and German historian and writer. He was a professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was made Emeritus Professor on his retirement in 2022.

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  1. Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a pre-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it also had to create these.

    29 August 1996 · Jonathan Cape Ltd; New edition, Own words

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Wolfson History Prize1997
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

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United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
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Born 1959 · age 66

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