Figes, Orlando.

A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891 – 1924.

London, Pimlico, 1997. 15 cm x 23 cm. XXII, 923 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Includes for example the following essays: The Tsar and His People / The Miniaturist / Bureaucrats and Dressing-Gowns / Remnants of a Feudal Army / Not-So-Holy Russia / Marx Comes to Russia / Parliaments and Peasants / From the Trenches to the Barricades / Nicholas the Last / A Distant Liberal State / Lenin’s Rage / Gorky’s Despair / Hamlets of Democratic Socialism / The Smolny Autocrats / St Petersburg on the Steppe / ‘Kulaks’, Bagmen and Cigarette Lighters / Bolshevism in Retreat / Orphans of the Revolution / Lenin’s Last Struggle etc.

″A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891–1924 is an award-winning book written by British historian Orlando Figes. First published in 1996, it chronicles Russian history from the Famine of 1891-1892, the response to which, Figes argues, severely weakened the Russian Empire, to the death of Lenin in 1924, when “the basic elements of the Stalinist regime – the one-party state, the system of terror and the cult of the personality – were all in place”. According to Figes “… the whole of 1917 could be seen as a political battle between those who saw the revolution as a means of bringing the war to an end and those who saw the war as a means of bringing the revolution to an end.” A People’s Tragedy won the Wolfson History Prize, the WH Smith Literary Award, the NCR Book Award, the Longman/History Today Book Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2008, the Times Literary Supplement listed A People’s Tragedy as one of the “hundred most influential books since the war”.” (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Revolution · Russia · Russian History · Russian Monarchy · Russian Revolution
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780712673273
• Inventory Number: 72008AB

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