Unrivalled in scope & brimming with human drama A People's Tragedy is the most vivid moving & comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today A modern masterpiece' Andrew Marr The most moving account of the Russian Revolution since Doctor Zhivago' Independent Opening with a panorama of Russian society from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants A People's Tragedy follows workers soldiers intellectuals & villagers as their world is consumed by revolution & then degenerates into violence & dictatorship Drawing on vast original research Figes conveys above all the shocking experience of the revolution for those who lived it while providing the clearest & most cogent account of how & why it unfolded Illustrated with over 100 photographs & now including a new introduction that reflects on the revolution's centennial legacy A People's Tragedy is a masterful & definitive record of one of the most important events in modern history