Amazon.com 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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
Packed with vivid human detail and incident, British historian Figes's monumental social and political history spans Russia's entire revolutionary period, from the czarist government's floundering during the famine of 1891 to Lenin's death in 1924, by which time all the basic institutions of the Soviet dictatorship?a privileged ruling elite, random terror, secret police, torture, mass executions, concentration camps?were in place. Figes dismantles any number of myths surrounding the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917, a military coup rammed through at Lenin's insistence ("hardly any of the Bolshevik leaders had wanted it to happen until a few hours before it began"). Using diaries, letters, memoirs and archival documents, Cambridge don Figes provides masterful portraits of cynical, power-hungry Lenin, driven by an absolute faith in his mission; Alexander Kerensky, weak-willed, vain democratic leader, the self-styled savior of Russia; writer Maxim Gorky, plagued by the fear?and later by the terrible realization?that the "people's revolution" was a descent into barbarism; Tolstoyan peasant reformer Sergei Semenov; and dozens of lesser-known figures. In this vibrant magnum opus, Figes illumines the manifold sources of Russia's failure to take a democratic path. Illustrations not seen by PW.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
0 有用 johoyo 2023-06-30 15:25:46 浙江
1891—1924 沙皇末期到临时政府到红白大战 讲到最后发现民粹主义最初的路线(赫尔岑)其实是对的 特卡乔夫及导师这一支大干快上效果拔群 但是根基始终不牢所以结局也不意外
0 有用 nikon 2022-06-20 19:29:10
这书怎么连台版都没有
1 有用 哀綠綺絲 2023-11-11 09:10:58 北京
代標譯本。詳盡地刻劃出王朝崩潰時的絲絲縷縷,末代沙皇、天真的抗議者是如何一步錯步步錯,權謀者如何偷天換日,以及這一切是如何百疏一密地可笑。歷史的對稱令人感到一種殘忍的幽默,「只憐身是眼中人」。
1 有用 张江伟81 2022-05-02 16:06:30
发现我还是对皇室八卦故事感兴趣,出身草根的国师,同性,被害,还有印象比较深刻的是残酷,饥荒,人吃人,虐待战俘,惨不忍睹,图片不敢多看,晚上要做恶梦,作者试图找出这种残酷的根本原因。这是一本非常深刻和专业的书,我是跳着看完的,我跳过了很多很仔细的原因分析及其他不敢兴趣的地方。如果我一直想看手机,而无法专注看书的章节我就跳过去了。更详细的评论请看我的书摘。
3 有用 污首阁下 2016-03-09 12:41:35
还行吧,西方的视角,可以一观,然并非完美。史实尚需自己探寻。
0 有用 岑宇 2024-01-09 07:34:29 上海
伟大的杰作!
1 有用 哀綠綺絲 2023-11-11 09:10:58 北京
代標譯本。詳盡地刻劃出王朝崩潰時的絲絲縷縷,末代沙皇、天真的抗議者是如何一步錯步步錯,權謀者如何偷天換日,以及這一切是如何百疏一密地可笑。歷史的對稱令人感到一種殘忍的幽默,「只憐身是眼中人」。
0 有用 StormsEnd 2023-11-09 20:12:32 新加坡
The ghost of 1917 has not been put to rest.
1 有用 喝红酒养身体 2023-10-25 16:22:57 日本
更多地像一部纪实作品——淳朴单纯,以至于被各种职业政客早早淘汰的李沃夫亲王,满怀绝望的殉道感以至于被命运吞噬的尼古拉二世,还有怀着军人的荣誉感和对乡土的热爱走向生命终点的布罗希洛夫将军。更多地还有如同陀思妥耶夫斯基《群魔》走出来的一批人,列宁、季诺维也夫,还有从革命中浴火重生,用更结实与无情的枷锁套在一个民族头上的斯大林。19世纪试图告别的,却是二十世纪的政治家们求而不得的。而今天列宁坟墓犹在,遗... 更多地像一部纪实作品——淳朴单纯,以至于被各种职业政客早早淘汰的李沃夫亲王,满怀绝望的殉道感以至于被命运吞噬的尼古拉二世,还有怀着军人的荣誉感和对乡土的热爱走向生命终点的布罗希洛夫将军。更多地还有如同陀思妥耶夫斯基《群魔》走出来的一批人,列宁、季诺维也夫,还有从革命中浴火重生,用更结实与无情的枷锁套在一个民族头上的斯大林。19世纪试图告别的,却是二十世纪的政治家们求而不得的。而今天列宁坟墓犹在,遗产却改头换面借用愤怒与控诉的面具,用更隐蔽却更残酷的方式继续挑战并试图摧毁这个世界。 (展开)
0 有用 五花王 2023-10-10 09:00:05 北京
俄罗斯民族伟大复兴路上的一点曲折探索。