A People's Tragedy

This history of Russia runs from the famine of 1891-92 through war, two revolutions, civil war, and the early Soviet state, ending in 1924. Figes follows peasants, soldiers, workers, liberals, and Bolsheviks as well as the last Romanovs, treating the Revolution as a long social collapse rather than a single coup. Chapters cover the 1905 rising, the Great War, the Provisional Government, October, and the Red and White campaigns. Sources include letters, memoirs, and local records. It is a narrative social and political history, not a biography of Lenin.

Bound in red cloth, with white and navy stamped design on front board and spine. Dark blue slipcase with red and white design on front. Combined.