- Published: 15 February 2017
- ISBN: 9781847924513
- Imprint: Bodley Head
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 960
- RRP: $55.00
A People's Tragedy
The Russian Revolution 1891–1924
- Published: 15 February 2017
- ISBN: 9781847924513
- Imprint: Bodley Head
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 960
- RRP: $55.00
A modern masterpiece
Andrew Marr
Combines dramatic power, absorbing narrative and magisterial scholarship – a magnificent tour de force
Christopher Andrew, Sunday Telegraph
The most moving account of the Russian Revolution since Doctor Zhivago
Lucasta Miller, Independent
This book is not just a history; it is an item of history
Neal Ascherson, Independent on Sunday
A People’s Tragedy will do more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know
Eric Hobsbawm, London Review of Books
Orlando Figes’s chronicle of the final days of Tsarism and the violent Bolshevism that arose from its ruins is an epic in size, scope and insight, and a classic in its genre… A People’s Tragedy succeeds most in capturing the sheer popular immensity of the upheavals in 1917-18, with all of Russia rising up first against the Tsar and then, with the onset of civil war, against itself. With its perfect balance of analysis and anecdote, A People’s Tragedy is surely among the most readable books on the Russian Revolution and the decades of tumult that made it possible – or inevitable
Brad Davies, Independent