Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama,A Peoples Tragedyis the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today.
A modern masterpiece Andrew Marr
The most moving account of the Russian Revolution sinceDoctor ZhivagoIndependent
Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants,A Peoples Tragedyfollows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship. Drawing on vast original research, Figes conveys above all the shocking experience of the revolution for those who lived it, while providing the clearest and most cogent account of how and why it unfolded.
Illustrated with over 100 photographs and now including a new introduction that reflects on the revolutions centennial legacy,A Peoples Tragedyis a masterful and definitive record of one of the most important events in modern history.
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 Tragedyreceived 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 historyincludingNatashas Dance: A Cultural History of Russia,The Whisperers: Private life in Stalins Russia, Crimea: the Last CrusadeandJust Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag.
