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It is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope,

exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative

skill, and human sympathy, A People's Tragedy 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. A People's Tragedy is a masterful and

original synthesis by a mature scholar, presented in a compelling

and accessibly human narrative.

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Written in a narrative style that captures both the scope and

detail of the Russian revolution, Orlando Figes's history is

certain to become one of the most important contemporary studies of

Russia as it was at the beginning of the 20th century. With an

almost cinematic eye, Figes captures the broad movements of war and

revolution, never losing sight of the individuals whose lives make

up his subject. He makes use of personal papers and personal

histories to illustrate the effects the revolution wrought on a

human scale, while providing a convincing and detailed

understanding of the role of workers, peasants, and soldiers in the

revolution. He moves deftly from topics such as the grand social

forces and mass movements that made up the revolution to profiles

of key personalities and representative characters.

Figes's themes of the Russian revolution as a tragedy for the

Russian people as a whole and for the millions of individuals who

lost their lives to the brutal forces it unleashed make sense of

events for a new generation of students of Russian history.

Sympathy for the charismatic leaders and ideological theorizing

regarding Hegelian dialectics and Marxist economics--two hallmarks

of much earlier writing on the Russian revolution--are banished

from these clear-eyed, fair-minded pages of A People's Tragedy. The

author's sympathy is squarely with the Russian people. That

commitment, together with the benefit of historical hindsight,

provides a standpoint Figes take full advantage of in this

masterful history. --This text refers to an out of print or

unavailable edition of this title.

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A soft focus on Lenin has, for the most part, suffused accounts

of the Soviet Union. He has been portrayed as a man drawn into

revolutionary activity by the death of his brother and driven by a

selfless desire to improve the lot of working people. As for the

undeniable violence of his rule, this was often explained away. . .

. Orlando Figes, a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, is

properly skeptical of such excuses. In A People's Tragedy, he has

produced an engagingly written and well-researched book that will

leave few readers with any doubts that the Bolsheviks, and

especially their leader Lenin, were ruthless killers, willing to

sacrifice millions of lives for the sake of power and their own

personal ambitions. . . . Figes has written a marvelous account of

one of history's greatest tragedies, and his book will stand for

some time as a standard of historical scholarship. -- The New York

Times Book Review, Steven Merritt Miner

What explains the terrible trajectory taken by the Russian

Revolution of 1917?

This question has tended to divide students of the Russian past

into two opposing camps. There are those, like the historian

Richard Pipes, who find in the Communist dictatorship and the

descent into the gulag a deep impress of the old czarist autocracy

and the old patrimonial state. And there are those, like Aleksandr

Solzhenitsyn, who claim that that same dictatorship represented

instead a fulfillment of the vision of Karl Marx and thus a radical

break in Russian history. A British historian, Orlando Figes, has

now entered the fray with A People's Tragedy, a 900-page history of

the Russian debacle. It succeeds handsomely as an engrossing

account of the revolution, but falls short of its implicit goal of

resolving this great historiographical debate.

Figes's particular method is to embark on a social-political

narrative that takes us from the Volga famine through the next

decades, highlighting the upheavals of peasant life, the rise of a

class of liberal gentry and professionals, the subversive role

played by radical intellectuals and revolutionaries, and the

debilitating split between reformers and absolutists within the

imperial regime itself. It then proceeds through World War I and

the two revolutions of 1917 and brings the story to a close in 1924

with Lenin's death, when the fundamental elements of the

totalitarian order that came to be known as Stalinism were all in

place.

A People's Tragedy never does arrive at a convincing interpretive

equilibrium. Still, it has its unmistakable virtues. For one thing,

Figes richly conveys the human dimensions of the catastrophe. For

another, he powerfully brings home the blindness of the imperial

authorities as well as the brutal illiberalism of revolutionary

activists, and he clarifies the way in which these two forces

conspired together to transform a chaotic social revolution into an

unparalleled political calamity. If he has not resolved one of the

more long-standing debates about the Bolshevik Revolution, he has,

at the very least, helped pave the way for future attempts. --

Commentary Magazine, June 1997, Daniel J. Mahoney --This text

refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.