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Orlando Figes

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in London, England

November 20, 1959

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Orlando Figes is an English historian of Russia, and a professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London.

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Average rating: 4.22 · 30,090 ratings · 3,349 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 4.37 avg rating — 5,972 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia 4.24 avg rating — 4,411 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crimean War: A History 4.07 avg rating — 4,189 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of Russia 4.23 avg rating — 3,800 ratings — published 2022 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia 4.26 avg rating — 3,185 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revolutionary Russia, 1891 - 1991: A History 4.04 avg rating — 3,163 ratings — published 2014 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture 4.25 avg rating — 1,252 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag 3.95 avg rating — 949 ratings — published 2012 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917 by Orlando Figes, Boris Kolonitsk II 3.64 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution 1917-21 3.95 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French and the Russian -- all took place in societies where the rate of literacy was approaching 50 per cent. Literacy had a profound effect on the peasant mind and community. It promotes abstract thought and enables the peasant to master new skills and technologies, Which in turn helps him to accept the concept of progress that fuels change in the modern world.”
― Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924

tags: literacy, peasants, revolutionary-wars

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“For all too many of these high-born revolutionaries, the main attraction of 'the cause' lay not so much in the satisfaction which they might derive from seeing the people's daily lives improved, as in their own romantic search for sense of 'wholeness' which might give higher meaning to their lives and to end alienation from the world.”
― Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924

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“Convinced that their own ideas were the key to the future of the world, that the fate of humanity rested on the outcome of their own doctrinal struggles, the Russian intelligentsia divided up the world into the forces of 'progress' and 'reaction', friends and enemies of the people's cause, leaving no room for doubters in between. Here were the origins of the totalitarian world-view. Although neither would have liked to admit it, there was much in common between Lenin and Tolstoy.”
― Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924

tags: lenin, tolstoy

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