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The most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today.

Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People’s Tragedy is widely hailed as the definitive account of the Russian Revolution.

Orlando Figes weaves scholarship and storytelling to capture both the epic scale and personal cost of 1917. Gripping and compassionate, he draws on the diaries and letters of workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world degenerates into violence and dictatorship, conveying above all the shocking experience of the revolution for those who lived it.

Illustrated with over 100 photographs and now including a new introduction that reflects on the revolution’s centennial legacy, A People’s Tragedy is – a masterful and definitive record of one of the most important events in modern history

‘A modern masterpiece.’ Andrew Marr

‘The most moving account… since Doctor Zhivago.’ Independent

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"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