A Walkthrough To The Life Of Orlando Figes
In London on the 20th day of November, year 1959, Mr. Orlando Figes was brought into life. He was born surrounded by a family of writers, and that is probably the biggest contributor why he finds great pleasure in writing as well His mother, named Eva Figes, is a feminist writer who was able to give her family what it needs single handedly. Mr. Figes’ mother was able to write non-fiction books and about thirteen novels, which are mostly about or centered with feminism. He also had a sister named Kate Figes, who is an editor and an author as well When his father abandoned them, Mr. Figes was only 3 years old so all of his formative years were spent mostly in an environment with feminists in Hampstead, North London. He attended the William Ellis School from the year 1971 up to 1978. When he first became a student to William Ellis, it was only a grammar school but when he reached sixth grade, it became a very comprehensive institution. He is only a year younger with the famous historians like Mark Mazower and Toby Abse who were both a school alumni.
From that day on, Mr. Orlando Figes‘ interest and passion for writing about history started to grow and flourish on that is why he decided to go to the University of Cambridge in the year 1979. There, he studied history at Cambridge’s Gonville and Caius College. As you can see, Gonville and Caius is one of the top colleges that teach history in the University of Cambridge. For him, it was a very good privilege for him to be able to study together with two famous European Historians, who were Peter Burke and Norman Stone. There he was able to write or compose a thesis paper which was entitled “Ludwig Borne and the Formation of a Radical Critique of Judaism” which was all later publish in the yearbook of the Leo Baeck Institute in the year 1984. Receiving an exceptional double-starred first from the University of Cambridge, he was able to graduate college in the year 1982. Along with the never tiring guidance of Mr. Norman Stone, Mr. Figes pursued PhD at the Trinity College in the University of Cambridge, and he also became a fellow from the year 1984 to 1999.
Mr. Orlando Figes‘ research about the Volga region as well as the peasantry for the length of the Russian Revolution has led him to write his very first book, which was the Peasant Russian, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution (1917-1921). His first book was published in the year 1989. While he still on the process of finishing the book in Moscow, he became a lecturer in History from the year 1987 to 1999.
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