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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 December 2015. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Extended holiday return window till Jan 31, 2021, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Original softcover. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon.

Unrivalled and wholly immersive, Orlando Figes's A People’s Tragedy is a panorama of Russian society on the eve of the revolution and the story of its violent erasure.. 100th Anniversary Edition Includes New Introduction In this acclaimed account, Figes follows workers, soldiers and peasants as their world is consumed by revolution.

“The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891–1924 is an award-winning book written by British historian Orlando Figes. A brilliantly interesting historical account of the Russian Revolution.
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In actual fact in 1913 we have a scenario where "the side" that makes the least mistakes is the side that must eventually prevail. A brilliant history of the Russian Revolution from the onset of the revolutionary crisis to the period when the basic institutions of the Stalinist regime were in place.  US$14.15, US$12.86 There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. There were 690 documented pogroms -- with over 3,000 reported murders -- during the two weeks following the deceleration of the October Manifesto. Figes's history of the Russian Revolution is detailed and an enjoyable read. Enjoyed it very much as I knew little about it. There was a problem loading your book clubs. This book examines the design and conception of the enormous Soviet monument that never came to pass because of World War II and Stalin's death.

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He thought of him as a father-figure who knew all the peasants personally by name, understood their problems in all their minute details, and, if it were not for the evil boyars who surrounded him, would satisfy their demands. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. 3 people found this helpful --Steven Merritt Miner, The New York Times Book Review, Huge in scope, brilliant in vignette, dark and implacable in theme, it is a modern masterpiece. Narrative history on the 20C's most radical social convulsion, Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2015. Aside from being a decent treatise on the interplay between various ethnic groups that formed pre-revolution Russia, this book is also a great study on tyrannical, far left ideology that throughout history, has always invoked a severe right wing reaction. It is with hindsight that we can mouth the still prevailing Marxist perception of history where feudalism had to make way for capitalism with imperial aspirations which in turn must bow out when the workers of the world unite. You will learn how Catherine bided her time & amassed the necessary political and military support to overthrow the heir to the Romanov dynasty.

I was mesmerized from the first page and it lasted right until the end, complete with characters who are followed throughout the entire story, quick and dense analyses of the forces behind events, and a full explanation of the consequences that inevitably followed.

Fascinating insight into Russian history. It came in great condition. It is a masterpiece of historical exposition. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. LEARN THE REVOLUTION FROM THE REVOLUTIONARIES! Along with pictures, this book profiles the reign of one of Russia's most notorious leaders, and how Ivan the Terrible earned his sobriquet and legacy, Discover the secret nuclear weapons program that risked nuclear war with China, and how it ended just before it was close to building nuclear weapons. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. See if your friends have read any of Orlando Figes's books. Understanding the leftist mind and the sources of political madness.  US$16.73, US$15.42  US$20.25, US$25.79 Whoever reads this account of the Russian revolution will surely feel that after the tercentenary celebrations of Romanov rule in 1913 there was nothing actually carved in stone on the wall of fate. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Many lessons learned in 1918 also apply in 2018, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 23, 2018.  US$30.00, US$15.16 Although the word tragedy is often used loosely to describe any sort of disaster or misfortune, it more precisely refers to a work of art that probes with high seriousness questions concerning the role of man in the universe. (Wikipedia), Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, A Concise History of the Russian Revolution, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956, The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962―1976, Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution.

Well-written, absorbing, fascinating. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

He is the author of many other books on Russian history including Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, The Whisperers: Private life in Stalin's Russia, Crimea: the Last Crusade and Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag. Ships from and sold by Book Depository UK.

While the country sank deeper into chaos he continued to fill his diary with terse and trivial notes on the weather, the company at tea and the number of birds he had shot that day. As a history teacher I thought that I knew this period of history backwards and I chose to read Mr Figes book because 2017 marks the centenary of the event and, now retired, I thought it might be refreshing to read a history with a more social history slant. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. A people's tragedy by Orlando Figes, unknown edition, Classifications Dewey Decimal Class 947.08/3 Library of Congress DK260 .F54 1997 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. A must read for anyone interested in this period and these events. And the more he experienced the everyday life of the peasant, the more he denounced them as savage and barbaric.”, “Only a few miles from any city centre one would find oneself already in the backwoods, where there were bandits living in the forests, where roads turned into muddy bogs in spring, and where the external signs of life in the remote hamlets had remained essentially unchanged since the Middle Ages. Well-written, absorbing, fascinating. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in.

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In short, if you want a book on the Russian Revolution, this should really be it. 'He says of the icon: "It's good for praying -- and you can cover the pots with it too.”, “Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a per-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it also had to create these. Unable to add item to List. When will my order arrive? Quite long. It had to educate society - and the state itself - into the values and ideas of liberal constitutionalism.”, “The currents of modern civilization had somehow passed it by, and as he returned to it now, fresh from the sides of England and France, Sergei Semenov saw only familiar signs of backwardness and decay.”, “Everybody cursed the Bolsheviks but nobody was prepared to do anything about them.”, “Lenin's Personal life was extraordinarily dull.


 US$24.99, US$10.07  US$12.87, US$21.01 It promotes abstract thought and enables the peasant to master new skills and technologies, Which in turn helps him to accept the concept of progress that fuels change in the modern world.”, “For all too many of these high-born revolutionaries, the main attraction of 'the cause' lay not so much in the satisfaction which they might derive from seeing the people's daily lives improved, as in their own romantic search for sense of 'wholeness' which might give higher meaning to their lives and to end alienation from the world.”, “Sveta had much less to say, but she sat with Lev and held his hand, and when I asked her what had made her fall in love with him, she replied, ‘I knew he was my future.

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Andrew Solomon says that nobody could fail to be impressed by Orlando Figes' A People's Tragedy - but 924 weighty pages don't necessarily add up to a good book (6 October 1996).

His first book, Ivan the Terrible: Russia’s Most Insane Tsar, Taiwan's Former Nuclear Weapons Program: Nuclear Weapons On-Demand, A History of RUSSIA ('In Brief' Books for Busy People Book 8). Additional. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number.

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A masterpiece. Everything you should know about the Russian Revolution, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 June 2016.


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