A People's Tragedy :The Russian Revolution – centenary edition with new introduction
A People's Tragedy :The Russian Revolution – centenary edition with new introduction
paperback
Published:
26 January, 2017
Description
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
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781847924513 |
| ISBN10 | 1847924514 |
| Number Of Pages | 960 |
| Item Weight | 1209 g |
| Product Dimensions | 155 x 234 x 56 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Special edition |
Media Reviews
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 *
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Author's Bio
Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Born in London in 1959, he was previously a Lecturer in History and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. A People’s Tragedy received the Wolfson Prize, the NCR Book Award, the W.H. Smith Literary Award, the Longman/History Today Book Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 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.