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A PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY
A History of the Russian Revolution
Orlando Figes

Copyright © Orlando Figes, 1996
ISBN: 0670859168

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Contents
Illustrations x
Preface xv
Glossary xix
Notes on Dates xxi
Maps xxiii
PART ONE RUSSIA UNDER THE OLD REGIME
1 The Dynasty 3
i The Tsar and His People 3
ii The Miniaturist IS
iii The Heir 24
2 Unstable Pillars 35
i Bureaucrats and Dressing-Gowns 35
ii The Thin Veneer of Civilization 42
iii Remnants of a Feudal Army 55
iv Not-So-Holy Russia 61
v Prison of Peoples 69
3 Icons and Cockroaches 84
i A World Apart 84
ii The Quest to Banish the Past 102
4 Red Ink 122
i Inside the Fortress 122
ii es to Russia 139

PART TWO THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITY (1891-1917)
5 First Blood 157
i Patriots and Liberators 157
ii 'There is no Tsar' 173
iii A Parting of Ways 192
6 Last Hopes 213
i Parliaments and Peasants 213
ii The Statesman 221
iii The Wager on the Strong 232
iv For God, Tsar and Fatherland 241
7 A War on Three Fronts 253
i Metal Against Men 253
ii The Mad Chauffeur 270
iii From the Trenches to the Barricades 291
PART THREE RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION (FEBRUARY I9I7-MARCH 1918)
8 Glorious February 307
i The Power of the Streets 307
ii Reluctant Revolutionaries 323
iii Nicholas the Last 339
9 The Freest Country in the World 354
i A Distant Liberal State 354
ii Expectations 361
iii Lenin's Rage 384
iv Gorky's Despair 398
10 The Agony of the Provisional Government 406
i The Illusion of a Nation 406
ii A Darker Shade of Red 421
iii The Man on a White Horse 438
iv Hamlets of Democratic Socialism 455

11 Lenin's Revolution 474
i The Art of Insurrection 474
ii The Smolny Autocrats 500
iii Looting the Looters 520
iv Socialism in One Country 536
PART FOUR THE CIVIL WAR AND THE MAKING OF THE SOVIET SYSTEM
(1918-24)
12 Last Dreams of the Old World 555
i St Petersburg on the Steppe 555
ii The Ghost of the Constituent A