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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 960 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 245x156x60 mm, kaal: 1194 g, Over 100 contemporaneous photographs
  • Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jan-2017
  • Kirjastus: The Bodley Head Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1847924514
  • ISBN-13: 9781847924513
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People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution centenary edition with new introduction Special editionSuurem pilt
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 960 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 245x156x60 mm, kaal: 1194 g, Over 100 contemporaneous photographs
  • Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jan-2017
  • Kirjastus: The Bodley Head Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1847924514
  • ISBN-13: 9781847924513
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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

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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 Peoples Tragedy will do more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know -- Eric Hobsbawm * London Review of Books * Orlando Figess 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 Peoples 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 Peoples 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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The unrivalled, definitive history beautifully reissued with a new introduction for the 100th anniversary
Introduction to the 100th Anniversary Edition xi
Preface to the 1996 Edition xix
Glossary xxiii
Illustrations
xxv
Maps
xxix
Notes on Dates xxxvi
PART ONE RUSSIA UNDER THE OLD REGIME
1 The Dynasty
3(32)
i The Tsar and His People
3(12)
ii The Miniaturist
15(9)
iii The Heir
24(11)
2 Unstable Pillars
35(49)
i Bureaucrats and Dressing-Gowns
35(7)
ii The Thin Veneer of Civilization
42(13)
iii Remnants of a Feudal Army
55(6)
iv Not-So-Holy Russia
61(8)
v Prison of Peoples
69(15)
3 Icons and Cockroaches
84(38)
i A World Apart
84(18)
ii The Quest to Banish the Past
102(20)
4 Red Ink
122(35)
i Inside the Fortress
122(17)
ii Marx Comes to Russia
139(18)
PART TWO THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITY (1891--1917)
5 First Blood
157(56)
i Patriots and Liberators
157(16)
ii `There is no Tsar'
173(19)
iii A Parting of Ways
192(21)
6 Last Hopes
213(40)
i Parliaments and Peasants
213(8)
ii The Statesman
221(11)
iii The Wager on the Strong
232(9)
iv For God, Tsar and Fatherland
241(12)
7 A War on Three Fronts
253(54)
i Metal Against Men
253(17)
ii The Mad Chauffeur
270(21)
iii From the Trenches to the Barricades
291(16)
PART THREE RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION (FEBRUARY 1917--MARCH 1918)
8 Glorious February
307(47)
i The Power of the Streets
307(16)
ii Reluctant Revolutionaries
323(16)
iii Nicholas the Last
339(15)
9 The Freest Country in the World
354(52)
i A Distant Liberal State
354(7)
ii Expectations
361(23)
iii Lenin's Rage
384(14)
iv Gorky's Despair
398(8)
10 The Agony of the Provisional Government
406(68)
i The Illusion of a Nation
406(15)
ii A Darker Shade of Red
421(17)
iii The Man on a White Horse
438(17)
iv Hamlets of Democratic Socialism
455(19)
11 Lenin's Revolution
474(81)
i The Art of Insurrection
474(26)
ii The Smolny Autocrats
500(20)
iii Looting the Looters
520(16)
iv Socialism in One Country
536(19)
PART FOUR THE CIVIL WAR AND THE MAKING OF THE SOVIET SYSTEM (1918--24)
12 Last Dreams of the Old World
555(34)
i St Petersburg on the Steppe
555(20)
ii The Ghost of the Constituent Assembly
575(14)
13 The Revolution Goes to War
589(61)
i Arming the Revolution
589(14)
ii `Kulaks', Bagmen and Cigarette Lighters
603(24)
iii The Colour of Blood
627(23)
14 The New Regime Triumphant
650(71)
i Three Decisive Battles
650(32)
ii Comrades and Commissars
682(14)
iii A Socialist Fatherland
696(25)
15 Defeat in Victory
721(52)
i Short-Cuts to Communism
721(11)
ii Engineers of the Human Soul
732(19)
iii Bolshevism in Retreat
751(22)
16 Deaths and Departures
773(35)
i Orphans of the Revolution
773(13)
ii The Unconquered Country
786(7)
iii Lenin's Last Struggle
793(15)
Conclusion 808(17)
Notes 825(37)
Bibliography 862(33)
Index 895
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 Peoples 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 Natashas Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, The Whisperers: Private life in Stalins Russia, Crimea: the Last Crusade and Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag.