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It is a history on an epic yet human scale. Orlando Figes provides a panorama of Russian society on the eve of the revolution, and then narrates the story of how these social forces were violently suppressed. Within the broad strokes of war and revolution are miniature histories of individuals - pieced together from their private writings - in which Figes follows the main players' fortunes as they saw their hopes die and their world crash into ruins.
There is the patriotic general Brusilov, the progressive peasant Semenov, the critical socialist Maxim Gorky...individuals whose lives collapsed under the weight of history.
Thus develops a remarkable and unique perspective on what is considered by some to be the century's most important event. Figes depicts the revolution as a tragedy - both for the Russians as a people and for so many individuals whose lives became caught up in the storm. Yet he also shows that the major social forces - the peasantry, the workers, the soldiers, and the subject people of the empire - were not just the victims of the Bolsheviks but also actors in their own complex revolutionary tragedies.
Figes argues that the failure of democracy in 1917 was deeply rooted in Russian culture and social history and that what had begun as a people's revolution contained the seeds of its degeneration into violence and dictatorship.
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History, Russia, Soviet Union, Revolution, Bürgerkrieg, Geschichte, Fiction, general, Russia (federation), history, Soviet union, history, 1917-1936, New York Times reviewed, Soviet union, history, house of romanov, 1613-1917, Soviet union, history, revolution, 1917-1921, Purity, ritual--judaism, Purity, ritual--judaism--periodicals, Fiction, GeneralPlaces
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A people's tragedy: the Russian Revolution, 1891-1924
1998, Penguin Books
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A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution
1997, Viking
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A people's tragedy: the Russian Revolution, 1891-1924
1997, Viking
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1997, Pimlico, London, Pimlico, 1997.
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A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution
1996, Viking
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