Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy. A People's Tragedy presents the first comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution in a single volume. Award-winning historian Orlando Figes brilliantly combines a synthesis of the social and political history of 1891-1934 with an original individual perspective derived from the private writings of several figures, whose tragic personal stories are interwoven through the public narrative. Throughout, the Revolution is seen not as a march of abstract social forces and ideologies, but as a human event made up of complicated individual tragedies.
