作者：OrlandoFiges
出版社：PenguinBooks
副标题：TheRussianRevolution：1891-1924
出版年：1998-3-1
页数：1024
定价：USD30.00
装帧：Paperback
ISBN：9780140243642
内容简介
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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.
作者简介
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Orlando Figes is a British historian of Russia, and a professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London.
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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。
一部颠覆性的巨著，理想国系列有版权译完被毙了，如果引进国内，必然引发历史圈和学术界的一阵热烈讨论
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。
哇🐸真的太好看了。。我祖师爷辈许多都在grad school从俄国史转到东亚史，我正好相反hhh太好看了，整个狠狠爱住
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