Smith Literary Award, the Longman/History Today Book Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A People’s Tragedy received the Wolfson Prize, the NCR Book Award, the W.H. Born in London in 1959, he was previously a Lecturer in History and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Illustrated with over 100 photographs and now including a new introduction that reflects on the revolution’s centennial legacy, A People’s Tragedy is a masterful and definitive record of one of the most important events in modern history. Drawing on vast original research, Figes conveys above all the shocking experience of the revolution for those who lived it, while providing the clearest and most cogent account of how and why it unfolded. Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants, A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship. Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People’s Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today. Ii ‘Kulaks’, Bagmen and Cigarette Lighters PART FOUR THE CIVIL WAR AND THE MAKING OF THE SOVIET SYSTEM (1918–24) PART THREE RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION (FEBRUARY 1917–MARCH 1918)ġ0 The Agony of the Provisional Government PART TWO THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITY (1891–1917) Introduction to the 100th Anniversary Edition
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