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Bringing things up to date, but putting them in their historical context, Edward Lucas discusses Putin and Russian history. Archie Brown chooses his best books on the Cold War and Stephen Lucas considers Soviet Law. Turning to the broader experience of Communist Russia and the Soviet Union, we haver Francis Spufford looking at 20 th century Russia, Robert Service looking at Totalitarian Russia, trying to answer the difficult question of who was worse, Lenin, Trotsky or Stalin. Both of them choose A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes. Roland Chambers looks at the Revolution itself, as does Thomas Keneally. Most of our interviews cover book recommendations for post-Revolutionary Russian history, but Andrei Maylunas looks at pre-Revolutionary Russia. Here you can start getting to grips with the best books on Russian history. These personal narratives allow him to look at this period from all points of view – the grand political perspective, the grassroots perspective, a literary perspective, a military perspective.”Ĭhurchill described Russia as a “riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma”. He chooses five very different characters: Prince Lvov, who was the prime minister in the provisional government that was formed after the February revolution in 1917 General Brusilov, the tsar’s most gifted general who later joined the Red Army Dmitri Oskin, a peasant soldier the author Maxim Gorky and Sergei Semenov, a reforming peasant leader. One of the great things about this book is that he combines a number of general theses about the revolution with personal narratives. He’s interested in how historical events of the magnitude of the Russian revolution developed out of a number of different social trends.

Its scope is immense….Figes is basically a social historian. “I think that A People’s Tragedy is the most readable and illuminating history of the Russian revolution to be written, using material that only became available to historians following the Soviet Union’s collapse.
