A People's Tragedy

Figes, Orlando. A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891 - 1924. London, Pimlico, 1997. 15 cm x 23 cm. XXII, 923 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: The Tsar and His People / The Miniaturist / Bureaucrats and Dressing-Gowns / Remnants of a Feudal Army / Not-So-Holy Russia / Marx Comes to Russia / Parliaments and Peasants / From the Trenches to the Barricades / Nicholas the Last / A Distant Liberal State / Lenin's Rage / Gorky's Despair / Hamlets of Democratic Socialism / The Smolny Autocrats / St Petersburg on the Steppe / 'Kulaks', Bagmen and Cigarette Lighters / Bolshevism in Retreat / Orphans of the Revolution / Lenin's Last Struggle etc. A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924 is an award-winning book written by British historian Orlando Figes. First published in 1996, it chronicles Russian history from the Famine of 1891-1892, the response to which, Figes argues, severely weakened the Russian Empire, to the death of Lenin in 1924, when the basic elements of the Stalinist regime - the one-party state, the system of terror and the cult of the personality - were all in place. According to Figes ... the whole of 1917 could be seen as a political battle between those who saw the revolution as a means of bringing the war to an end and those who saw the war as a means of bringing the revolution to an end. A People's Tragedy won the Wolfson History Prize, the WH Smith Literary Award, the NCR Book Award, the Longman/History Today Book Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2008, the Times Literary Supplement listed A People's Tragedy as one of the hundred most influential books since the war. (Wikipedia)