Factory size, levels of skill and literacy, the number of years spent living in the city, and the influence of the revolutionary intelligentsia—all these factors have been scrutinized in microscopic detail in countless monographs, each hoping to discover the crucial mix that explained the rise of the ‘workers’ revolution’ in Russia. Until the very end of the Soviet system, its leaders believed they were carrying out the revolution Lenin had begun. Orlando Figes. Weight: 269 g To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The website is designed to be used in parallel with my book Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991 (Pelican, 2014). A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924, The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991, Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture, A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia, The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union. The most successful movements combined the peasants’ struggle for the land (where it was owned by foreign landlords, officials and merchants) with the demand for native language rights, enabling the peasants to gain full access to schools, the courts and government.This combination was the key to the success of the Ukrainian nationalist movement. He presents a centurylong revolution stretching from 1891 to 1991, and divides it into three phases: the rise of the Bolsheviks, Stalin’s rule, and the repercussions of Khruschev’s denouncement of Stalin. There is no more inflammatory topic than the Arabs and the Holocaustthe phrase alone can Important details are kept without losing sight of author's comments and analysis. War and Revolution 217?16. Populism had its roots in the intelligentsia’s mission to improve the peasants’ lot and to involve them in a democratic movement against the autocracy following the serf emancipation in 1861. Marxism alone seemed able to explain the causes of the famine by showing how a capitalist economy created rural poverty. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. From the author of A People's Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreams. He was mild-mannered and had an excellent memory and a perfect sense of decorum, which made him ideal for the ceremonial tasks of a constitutional monarch. In the 1890s it fast became a national intelligentsia creed. Good book but not that easy to digest. The local activists of the Russian Revolution were drawn mainly from this newly literate generation—the beneficiaries of the boom in rural schooling during the last decades of the old regime, now in large enough numbers to pass on the new ideas to those still illiterate. Stalin's Crisis 163?12. During the 1890s strikes became the main form of industrial protest and they required the sort of disciplined organization that only the most skilled and literate workers could provide.Here Russia stood in stark contrast to Europe, where these worker types tended to be the least revolutionary and labour parties representing them were entering parliaments. The highest rural rates were among young men in those regions closest to the towns (nine out of ten peasant recruits into the Imperial army from the two provinces of Petersburg and Moscow were considered literate even by 1904). Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991, by Orlando Figes, Pelican, RRP£7.99, 496 pages/Metropolitan Books, RRP$28, 336 pages. The site uses cookies to offer you a better experience. 176?13. Why he’s worse than a dog. Interesting but not well written. Yet most workers were denied a legal right to insurance and, if they lost an eye or a limb, could expect no more than a few roubles’ compensation. His latest book is Revolutionary Russia, 1891–1991: A History. Winner of the Bard Fiction Prize A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearAn With hindsight it was foolish of the Mensheviks to allow the adoption of these names. 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