Synopsis
On the brink of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, read the most vivid, moving, and comprehensive history of the events that changed the world
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.
Review
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.
Orlando Figes is the prizewinning author of A People's Tragedy and Natasha's Dance. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Review of Books.
A People's Contest
Horace Greeley explained that the president ' s emancipation advances had taken him too far ahead of the people . A losing candidate in Ohio noted that " I had thought until this year the cry of ' nigger ' and ' abolitionism ' were ..."
A People in Revolution
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Shaping a People's Destiny
Eritrean Claims The Eritrean people also had a part in the debates. Representative leaders of the main political groups travelled to Lake Success and made eloquent statements before the world forum. But their views confused the picture ..."
A People's Guidebook to the Environment
more than a million people . The project is currently being met with heavy protest (see narmada bachao andolan). The other environmental problems associated with dams include water logging and salination of land in the area, ..."
A People, a Place: The future great city, 1881-1940
... A tale of industrious, ambitious people trying to prosper in a place with a challenging climate and terrain.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sledge, Robert W. A people , a place: the story of Abilene / Robert W. Sledge. V. Cin. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: v. 1. The future great city, ..."
A People's War on Poverty
Phelps investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s and argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site of conflict over the meaning of American democracy.
A People's Organization, according to Alinsky, was not simply a community council, designed by liberals, merely to remedy the symptoms of the problems of a community; rather, it was a radically inspired group of citizens empowered to ..."
A People's History of the Peculiar
"Truly trivia you can't live without, A People's History of the Peculiar is filled with facts, lists, definitions, and astonishing information guaranteed to provide you with the best cocktail conversation for many years to come! Your guide, Nick Belardes, has devoted his life to poking around the peculiar and perplexing. Explore the unknown stories behind why the nation's capitol didn't stay in Philadelphia, why some fossils are smiling, and how, if Preparation H existed in the early 1800s, Napoleon would have won Waterloo. These real-world facts are outlandish enough to sharpen your brain and occupy your mind for hours of reading. This book is so fascinating and fun, you'll become obsessed, too!"--
Praise for A People's History of the Peculiar “ A People's History ofthe Peculiar is the perfect desk reference for ordinary insane people . Nick Belardes is a force of nature.” —Brad Listi, author of Attention. Deficit. Disorder."
Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition
Selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn. New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence); Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Square; a member of Dream Defenders, a youth organization that confronts systemic racial inequality; members of the Undocumented Youth movement, who occupied, marched, and demonstrated in support of the DREAM Act; a member of the Day Laborers movement; Chicago Teachers Union strikers; and several critics of the Obama administration, including Glenn Greenwald, on governmental secrecy.
Whiteworkers, angered by an influx of black workers, killed perhapstwo hundred people , provoking an angryarticle by the AfricanAmerican writer W.E. B. DuBois, “The Massacre of East St. Louis,” and causing the performing artist Josephine ..."
A People's History of the French Revolution
A bold new history of the French Revolution from the standpoint of the peasants, workers, women and sans culottes The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal gadfly Marat—the events and figures of the French Revolution have exercised a hold on the historical imagination for more than 200 years. It has been a template for heroic insurrection and, to more conservative minds, a cautionary tale. In the hands of Eric Hazan, author of The Invention of Paris, the revolution becomes a rational and pure struggle for emancipation. In this new history, the first significant account of the French Revolution in over twenty years, Hazan maintains that it fundamentally changed the Western world—for the better. Looking at history from the bottom up, providing an account of working people and peasants, Hazan asks, how did they see their opportunities? What were they fighting for? What was the Terror and could it be justified? And how was the revolution stopped in its tracks? The People’s History of the French Revolution is a vivid retelling of events, bringing them to life with a multitude of voices. Only in this way, by understanding the desires and demands of the lower classes, can the revolutionary bloodshed and the implacable will of a man such as Robespierre be truly understood.
61 of Hébert's Père Duchesne, a dialogue expressed the feeling of the people : 'How are you, Père Duchesne, my good friend, the great lout says to nine. 'Good friend you say, you bleeding coward, friends, are we, after what you've just ..."
A People's Guide to Los Angeles
This book documents 115 little-known sites in Los Angeles where struggles related to race, class, gender, sexuality, and the environment have occurred. They introduce us to people and events usually ignored by mainstream media and, in the process, create a fresh history of Los Angeles.
This book documents 115 little-known sites in Los Angeles where struggles related to race, class, gender, sexuality, and the environment have occurred."
The Soul of a People
'The observance of the law alone entitles to the right of belonging to my religion.'-Saying of the Buddha. For the first few years of my stay in Burma my life was so full of excitement that I had little care or time for any thought but of to-day. There was, first of all, my few months in Upper Burma in the King's time before the war, months which were full of danger and the exhilaration of danger, when all the surroundings were too new and too curious to leave leisure for examination beneath the surface. Then came the flight from Upper Burma at the time of the war, and then the war itself. And this war lasted four years. Not four years of fighting in Burma proper, for most of the Irrawaddy valley was peaceful enough by the end of 1889; but as the central parts quieted down, I was sent to the frontier, first on the North and then on the East by the Chin mountains; so that it was not until 1890 that a[Pg 2] transfer to a more settled part gave me quiet and opportunity for consideration of all I had seen and known. For it was in those years that I gained most of whatever little knowledge I have of the Burmese people.
'The observance of the law alone entitles to the right of belonging to my religion."
Survey of People's Republic of China Press
ARMY DAY Peking Grand Reception Marks Chinese Army Day 17 Peking, Shanghai, Tientsin Celebrate Army Day 20 ARMY DAY PROPAGANDA Chinese Armymen Serve People 21 Office Workers and Armymen on Tibetan Plateau Persevere in Productive Labor ..."
Indian Anthropologist
or a group of people having a sense of national consciousness may constitute their own state and government according to their wish without any interference from other nation(s) and/or state(s);of course meaning for those people having ..."
A People’s History of Riots, Protest and the Law
This book examines how movements from below pose challenges to the status quo. The 2010s have seen an explosion of protest movements, sometimes characterised as riots by governments and the media. But these are not new phenomena, rather reflecting thousands of years of conflict between different social classes. Beginning with struggles for democracy and control of the state in Athens and ancient Rome, this book traces the common threads of resistance through the Middle Ages in Europe and into the modern age. As classes change so does the composition of the protestors and the goals of their movements; the one common factor being how groups can mobilise to resist unbearable oppression, thereby developing a crowd consciousness that widens their political horizons and demonstrates the possibility of overthrowing the existing order. To appreciate the roots and motivations of these so-called deviants the author argues that we need to listen to the sound of the crowd. This book will be of interest to researchers of social movements, protests and riots across sociology, history and international relations.
This book will be of interest to researchers of social movements, protests and riots across sociology, history and international relations. This book examines how movements from below pose challenges to the status quo."
Summary of World Broadcasts
To rebuild the PKI as the revolutionary party of the proletariat capable of leading and uniting all revolutionary forces in the armed struggle to overthrow the counterrevolutionary rule of Suharto-Nasution and establish a people's ..."
Kwanzaa
Such a tendency to downplay or deny each other's achievement is reflective of our need as a people for a cultural revolution which introduces and establishes principles and practices to alter our fundamental values and relations with ..."
Prehistoric Japan
On the other hand, Professor Tsuboi gives a long list of reasons that make it probable to him that the stone age and shell heap deposits originated from a people different from the Aino. Most of Tsuboi's arguments are hardly convincing, ..."
Paul among the Postliberals
Illuminates Paul's letters by creating fascinating links between Pauline scholarship and the writings of postliberals such as Stanley Hauerwas and John Howard Yoder.
I am convinced, as the rest of this chapter shows, that Paul's mission to and engagement with the Gentile peoples may be ... Two Cultures, One People : Gentile Believers and the Synagogues in Rome If, following Griffiths, Milbank, ..."
A People Set Apart
When Chance, the flamboyant scion of a well-to-do family, makes it to the United States from his war-torn Biafra, it doesn't occur to him that life isn't going to be the same as it is in his homeland. But he learns fast. And by sheer will and personal grit, he is able to bulldoze his way in his new abode. Turning adversities into advantage he develops one of the most enduring relationships ever imagined. Turnkey, his nemesis turns friend, and over a short period of time, that metamorphosis yields an instant result. Chance schools him to change course and makes him to understand that he can buy himself out of the box seemingly reserved for him and his ilk that will place him in low level of society's cadet in perpetuity. Having seen the light, they hit the ground running. Their friendship blossoms, and Chance becomes his greatest confidante. When Chance offers to take him and a group of his American friends to his homeland of Biafra, a country remembered in flashpoints of war and pillage and destruction, and man's inhumanity to man, Turnkey is there to defend his friend and dispel all erroneous notions of a people he hasn't met except one man. Biafra, plundered since time immemorial, and thought dead, has risen from the ashes of pillagery by dint, and indefatigable spirit of her irrepressible people to hoist her flag in the firmament for all to see. In Biafra, Africa is unbound. Turnkey, a fortuitous child, and even luckier than a cat with more than nine lives, doesn't leave anything to chance. Like his father, he toils from a young age knowing where he's coming from but also with an eye to where he's heading to. Yet, it's him that the mighty God has had his path cleared before him. And when fortune smiles on him owing to a huge bequeathal of his granduncle, it's to Chance that he turns to, and it's in his friend's homeland that he chooses to invest his largesse because he wholeheartedly believes that they're a people set apart in spite of the challenges right and about them.
And when fortune smiles on him owing to a huge bequeathal of his granduncle, it's to Chance that he turns to, and it's in his friend's homeland that he chooses to invest his largesse because he wholeheartedly believes that they're a people ..."
Customer Relationship Management
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a growing area for businesses around the world. Despite the many difficulties in implementing these complex systems, the benefits of CRM are well-documented, and it has grown to be a huge industry in and of itself. With this, there is a demand for skilled employees and knowledgeable graduates. Students and employees must gain a better understanding of how CRM works in order to be viable in the workforce. This book provides detail, exercises, and content that has not been previously available. It can be used in multiple areas, including MIS, business, marketing, and others.
Students and employees must gain a better understanding of how CRM works in order to be viable in the workforce. This book provides detail, exercises, and content that has not been previously available."
Japan Socialist Review
On the Convention of the People's Congress Aug. 21, 1976 The Socialist Party of Japan held on Aug. 12 the People's Congress in order to get the views and opinions of broad sections of the people reflected in its policy for a people's ..."
Summary of the Yugoslav Press
Milka Kufrin was elected a people's deputy of the Constituent Assembly and of all the Federal People's Assemblies. She has also been elected a deputy of the Assembly of PR Croatia. # the same time she carried out a series of party/ ..."
Canada, Quebec, and the Uses of Nationalism
Nationalism, then, is a doctrine that provides emotional and intellectual justification for a people's power over the place they claim is theirs. Or it is the justification for a people's desire to take control of a place occupied by ..."
No More Blah Restore Our Vote
Politics Following the sacking of the prime minister again and popular disillusionment with politics the case is made that to combat political corruption of parliament an option of a People's Government should be provided. This would involve that should the informal vote at a general election exceed 50% the Governor-General / republic President would call community nominations for a second election of a People's government to rule for the parliamentary term.
Politics Following the sacking of the prime minister again and popular disillusionment with politics the case is made that to combat political corruption of parliament an option of a People's Government should be provided."
Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites in the Allocutions of Pius XII
Explores the role of the nobility and analogous traditional elites in contemporary society.
... a constant direction for a direct and coherent progress in the march of time , a guarantee of stability and endurance , which gives to a people its dignity , its right to life , its duty to act in harmony with other peoples ..."
United States Congressional Serial Set
These funds have been used to provide minimal basic services for a people who were largely on a subsistence economy and who, despite centuries of alien rule, have not been afl'orded an opportunity to become part of the modern world."
Becoming Aware
There is inside you all of the potential to be whatever you want to be -- all of the energy to do whatever you want to do. Imagine yourself as you would like to be, doing what you want to do, and each day, take one step ... toward your dream. And though at times it may seem too difficult to continue, hold on to your dream. One morning you will awake to find that you are the person you dreamed of -- doing what you wanted to do -- simply because you had the courage to believe in your potential and to hold on to your dream.
The number of divorces indicates that more and more people are not trying to make their marriages work. a. ln our society a person's future earning power is dependent on their ability. b. Getting promoted is really a matter of being a ..."
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