A People's Tragedy
The Russian Revolution – centenary edition with new introduction
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:26th Jan '17
£30.00
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The unrivalled, definitive history beautifully reissued with a new introduction for the 100th anniversary
Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants, this book follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship.
The most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today.
Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is widely hailed as the definitive account of the Russian Revolution.
Orlando Figes weaves scholarship and storytelling to capture both the epic scale and personal cost of 1917. Gripping and compassionate, he draws on the diaries and letters of workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world degenerates into violence and dictatorship, conveying above all the shocking experience of the revolution for those who lived it.
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
‘A modern masterpiece.’ Andrew Marr
‘The most moving account… since Doctor Zhivago.’ Independent
A modern masterpiece -- Andrew Marr
Combines dramatic power, absorbing narrative and magisterial scholarship – a magnificent tour de force -- Christopher Andrew * Sunday Telegraph *
The most moving account of the Russian Revolution since Doctor Zhivago -- Lucasta Miller * Independent *
This book is not just a history; it is an item of history -- Neal Ascherson * Independent on Sunday *
A People’s Tragedy will do more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know -- Eric Hobsbawm * London Review of Books *
Orlando Figes’s chronicle of the final days of Tsarism and the violent Bolshevism that arose from its ruins is an epic in size, scope and insight, and a classic in its genre… A People’s Tragedy succeeds most in capturing the sheer popular immensity of the upheavals in 1917-18, with all of Russia rising up first against the Tsar and then, with the onset of civil war, against itself. With its perfect balance of analysis and anecdote, A People’s Tragedy is surely among the most readable books on the Russian Revolution and the decades of tumult that made it possible – or inevitable -- Brad Davies * Independent *
ISBN: 9781847924513
Dimensions: 234mm x 155mm x 56mm
Weight: 1209g
960 pages
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