A People's Tragedy
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A People's Tragedy
| Full title | A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 |
|---|---|
| Author | Orlando Figes |
| Published | 1996 |
| Pages | 923 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Orlando Figes’s single-volume history of the Russian Revolution, 1891 to 1924, told from below through a handful of individual lives. His argument is that the authoritarian outcome was present in the Bolshevik state’s first year — not a later Stalinist deformation of a democratic revolution. |
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, under Marxism and Collective Psychology, where it supplies the case history for the section’s theory: what happened when the doctrine actually took a state. Full transcription: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
Connections
- Russia — the country the book is about.
- Socialism — the doctrine that took power in it.
- Totalitarianism — the outcome Figes traces to the revolution’s first year.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.