{"product_id":"a-peoples-tragedy-isbn-9780140243642","title":"A People's Tragedy","description":"\u003cb\u003eOn the brink of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, read the most vivid, moving, and comprehensive history of the events that changed the world\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy,\u003ci\u003e A People's Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. Many consider the Russian Revolution to be the most significant event of the twentieth century. Distinguished scholar Orlando Figes presents a panorama of Russian society on the eve of that revolution, and then narrates the story of how these social forces were violently erased. Within the broad stokes of war and revolution are miniature histories of individuals, in which Figes follows the main players' fortunes as they saw their hopes die and their world crash into ruins. Unlike previous accounts that trace the origins of the revolution to overreaching political forces and ideals, Figes argues that the failure of democracy in 1917 was deeply rooted in Russian culture and social history and that what had started as a people's revolution contained the seeds of its degeneration into violence and dictatorship.\u003ci\u003e A People's Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful and original synthesis by a mature scholar, presented in a compelling and accessibly human narrative.\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Dates\u003cbr\u003eMaps\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePART ONE\u003c\/i\u003e RUSSIA UNDER THE OLD REGIME\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 The Dynasty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ei  The Tsar and His People\u003cbr\u003eii  The Miniaturist\u003cbr\u003eiii  The Heir\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Unstable Pillars\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ei  Bureaucrats and Dressing-Gowns\u003cbr\u003eii  The Thin Veneer of Civilization\u003cbr\u003eiii  Remnants of a Feudal Army\u003cbr\u003eiv  Not-So-Holy Russia\u003cbr\u003ev  Prison of Peoples\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Icons and Cockroaches\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ei  A World Apart\u003cbr\u003eii  The Quest to Banish the Past\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Red Ink\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ei  Inside the Fortress\u003cbr\u003eii  Marx Comes to Russia\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePART TWO\u003c\/i\u003e THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITY (1891–1917)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 First Blood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ei  Patriots and Liberators\u003cbr\u003eii  'There is no Tsar'\u003cbr\u003eiii  A Parting of Ways\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Last Hopes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ei Parliaments and Peasants\u003cbr\u003eii  The Statesman\u003cbr\u003eiii The Wager on the Strong\u003cbr\u003eiv  For God, Tsar and Fatherland\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 A War on Three Fronts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ei Metal Against Men\u003cbr\u003eii  The Mad Chauffeur\u003cbr\u003eiii From the Trenches to the Barricades\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePART THREE\u003c\/i\u003e RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION (FEBRUARY 1917–MARCH 1918)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Glorious February\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ei  The Power of the Streets\u003cbr\u003eii  Reluctant Revolutionaries\u003cbr\u003eiii  Nicholas the Last\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 The Freest Country in the World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ei  A Distant Liberal State\u003cbr\u003eii  Expectations\u003cbr\u003eiii  Lenin's Rage\u003cbr\u003eiv  Gorky's Despair\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 The Agony of the Provisional Government\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ei  The Illusion of a Nation\u003cbr\u003eii  A Darker Shade of Red\u003cbr\u003eiii  The Man on a White Horse\u003cbr\u003eiv  Hamlets of Democratic Socialism\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Lenin's Revolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ei  The Art of Insurrection\u003cbr\u003eii  The Smolny Autocrats\u003cbr\u003eiii  Looting the Looters\u003cbr\u003eiv  Socialism in One Country\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePART FOUR\u003c\/i\u003e THE CIVIL WAR AND THE MAKING OF THE SOVIET SYSTEM (1918–24)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 Last Dreams of the Old World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ei  St. Petersburg on the Steppe\u003cbr\u003eii  The Ghost of the Constituent Assembly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 The Revolution Goes to War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ei  Arming the Revolution\u003cbr\u003eii  'Kulaks', Bagmen and Cigarette Lighters\u003cbr\u003eiii  The Colour of Blood\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14  The New Regime Triumphant\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ei  Three Decisive Battles\u003cbr\u003eii  Comrades and Commissars\u003cbr\u003eiii  A Socialist Fatherland\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 Defeat in Victory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ei  Short-Cuts to Communism\u003cbr\u003eii  Engineers of the Human Soul\u003cbr\u003eiii  Bolshevism in Retreat\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e16 Deaths and Departures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ei  Orphans of the Revolution\u003cbr\u003eii  The Unconquered Country\u003cbr\u003eiii  Lenin's Last Struggle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eILLUSTRATIONS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImages of Autocracy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1  St. Petersburg illuminated for the Romanov tercentenary in 1913\u003cbr\u003e2  The procession of the imperial family during the tercentenary\u003cbr\u003e3  Nicholas II rides in public view during the tercentenary\u003cbr\u003e4  Nevsky Prospekt decorated for the tercentenary\u003cbr\u003e5  Guards officers greet the imperial family during the tercentenary\u003cbr\u003e6  Townspeople and peasants in Kostroma during the tercentenary\u003cbr\u003e7  The court ball of 1903\u003cbr\u003e8  The Temple of Christ's Resurrection\u003cbr\u003e9  Trubetskoi's equestrian statue of Alexander III\u003cbr\u003e10  Statue of Alexander III outside the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour\u003cbr\u003e11  The imperial family\u003cbr\u003e12  Rasputin with his admirers\u003cbr\u003e13  The Tsarevich Alexis with Derevenko\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEveryday Life Under the Tsars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14  The city mayors of Russia\u003cbr\u003e15  A group of volost elders\u003cbr\u003e16  A newspaper kiosk in St. Petersburg\u003cbr\u003e17  A grocery store in St. Petersburg\u003cbr\u003e18  Dinner at a ball given by Countess Shuvalov\u003cbr\u003e19  A soup kitchen for the unemployed in St. Petersburg\u003cbr\u003e20  Peasants of a northern Russian village\u003cbr\u003e21  Peasant women threshing wheat\u003cbr\u003e22  Peasant women hauling a barge\u003cbr\u003e23  Twin brothers, former serfs, from Chernigov province\u003cbr\u003e24  A typical Russian peasant household\u003cbr\u003e25  A meeting of village elders\u003cbr\u003e26  A religious procession in Smolensk province\u003cbr\u003e27  The living space of four Moscow factory workers\u003cbr\u003e28  Inside a Moscow engineering works\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDramatis Personae\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e29  General Brusilov\u003cbr\u003e30  Maxim Gorky\u003cbr\u003e31  Prince G.E. Lvov\u003cbr\u003e32  Sergei Semenov\u003cbr\u003e33  Dmitry Os'kin\u003cbr\u003e34  Alexander Kerensky\u003cbr\u003e35  Lenin\u003cbr\u003e36  Trotsky\u003cbr\u003e37  Alexandra Kollontai\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetween Revolutions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e38  Soldiers fire at the demonstrating workers on 'Bloody Sunday', 1905\u003cbr\u003e39  Demonstrators confront mounted Cossacks during 1905\u003cbr\u003e40  The opening of the State Duma in April 1906\u003cbr\u003e41  The Tauride Palace\u003cbr\u003e42  Petr Stolypin\u003cbr\u003e43  Wartime volunteers pack parcels for the Front\u003cbr\u003e44  A smart dinner party sees in the New Year of 1917\u003cbr\u003e45  Troops pump out a trench on the Northern Front\u003cbr\u003e46  Cossacks patrol the streets of Petrograd in February 1917\u003cbr\u003e47  The arrest of a policeman during the February Days\u003cbr\u003e48  Moscow workers playing with the stone head of Alexander II\u003cbr\u003e49  A crowd burns tsarist emblems during the February Days\u003cbr\u003e50  The crowd outside the Tauride Palace during the February Days\u003cbr\u003e51  Soldiers receive news of the Tsar's abdication\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImages of 1917\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e52  The First Provisional Government in the Marinsky Palace\u003cbr\u003e53  The burial of victims of the February Revolution\u003cbr\u003e54  A meeting of the Soviet of Soldiers' Deputies\u003cbr\u003e55  Waiters and waitresses of Petrograd on strike\u003cbr\u003e56  The All-Russian Congress of Peasant Deputies\u003cbr\u003e57  Fedor Linde leads an anti-war demonstration by the Finland Regiment during the April Crisis\u003cbr\u003e58  Kerensky makes a speech to soldiers at the Front\u003cbr\u003e59  Metropolitan Nikon blesses the Women's Battalion of Death\u003cbr\u003e60  General Kornilov's triumphant arrival in Moscow during the State Conference\u003cbr\u003e61 Members of the Women's Battalion of Death in the Winter Palace on 25 October\u003cbr\u003e62  Some of Kerensky's last defenders in the Winter Palace on 25 October\u003cbr\u003e63  The Smolny Institute\u003cbr\u003e64  The Red Guard of the Vulkan Factory\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e65  General Alexeev\u003cbr\u003e66  General Denikin\u003cbr\u003e67  Admiral Kolchak\u003cbr\u003e68  Baron Wrangel\u003cbr\u003e69  Members of the Czech Legion in Vladivostok\u003cbr\u003e70  A group of White officers during a military parade in Omsk\u003cbr\u003e71  A strategic meeting of Red partisans\u003cbr\u003e72  An armoured train\u003cbr\u003e73  The Latvian Division passing through a village\u003cbr\u003e74  Two Red Army soldiers take a break\u003cbr\u003e75  Red Army soldiers reading propaganda leaflets\u003cbr\u003e76  A Red Army mobile library in the village\u003cbr\u003e77  Nestor Makhno\u003cbr\u003e78  The execution of a peasant by the Whites\u003cbr\u003e79  Jewish victims of a pogrom\u003cbr\u003e80  Red Army soldiers torture a Polish officer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEveryday Life Under the Bolsheviks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e81  Muscovites dismantle a house for firewood\u003cbr\u003e82  A priest helps transport timber\u003cbr\u003e83  Women of the 'former classes' sell their last possessions\u003cbr\u003e84  A soldier buys a pair of shoes from a group of \u003ci\u003eburzhoois\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e85  Haggling over a fur scarf at the Smolensk market in Moscow\u003cbr\u003e86  Traders at the Smolensk market\u003cbr\u003e87  Two ex-tsarist officers are made to clear the streets\u003cbr\u003e88  Cheka soldiers close down traders' stalls in Moscow\u003cbr\u003e89  Requisitioning the peasants' grain\u003cbr\u003e90  'Bagmen'; on the railways\u003cbr\u003e91  The 1 May \u003ci\u003esubbotnik\u003c\/i\u003e on Red Square in Moscow, 1920\u003cbr\u003e92  An open-air cafeteria at the Kiev Station in Moscow\u003cbr\u003e93  Delegates of the Ninth All-Russian Party Congress\u003cbr\u003e94  The Agitation and Propaganda Department of the Commissariat for Supply and Distribution in the Northern Region\u003cbr\u003e95  The Smolny Institute on the anniversary of the October coup\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Revolutionary Inheritance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e96  Red Army troops assault the mutinous Kronstadt Naval Base\u003cbr\u003e97  Peasant rebels attack a train of requisitioned grain\u003cbr\u003e98  Bolshevik commissars inspect the harvest failure in the Volga region\u003cbr\u003e99  Unburied corpses from the famine crisis\u003cbr\u003e100  Cannibals with their victims\u003cbr\u003e101  Street orphans in Saratov hunt for food in a rubbish tip\u003cbr\u003e102  The Secretary of the Tula Komsomol\u003cbr\u003e103  A juvenile unit of the Red Army in Turkestan\u003cbr\u003e104  Red Army soldiers confiscate valuables from the Semenov Monastery\u003cbr\u003e105  A propaganda meeting in Bukhara\u003cbr\u003e106  Two Bolshevik commissars in the Far East\u003cbr\u003e107  The dying Lenin in 1923\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Few historians have the courage to attack great subjects; fewer have the grasp to succeed.  This is a book that lets the reader look into the face of one of the major social upheavels of history. . . . \u003cb\u003eA People's Tragedy\u003c\/b\u003e will do more to help us undersand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Eric Hobsbawm, \u003cb\u003eThe London Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I doubt there is anyone in the world who knows the revolution as well as Figes does.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Norman Stone, \u003cb\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/b\u003e (London)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An engagingly written and well-researched book. . . . Will stand for some time as a standard of historical scholarship.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Steven Merritt Miner, \u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Huge in scope, brilliant in vignette, dark and implacable in theme, it is a modern masterpiece.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Andrew Marr, \u003cb\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOrlando Figes is the prizewinning author of \u003cb\u003eA People’s Tragedy\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eNatasha’s Dance\u003c\/b\u003e. 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