It is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, A People's Tragedy is a profound account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. Many consider the Russian Revolution to be the most significant event of the twentieth century.
Chapter 1. The Tsar and His People
Chapter 1. Bureaucrats and Dressing-Gowns
Chapter 2. The Thin Veneer of Civilization
Chapter 3. Remnants of a Feudal Army
Chapter 2. The Quest to Banish the Past
Chapter 1. Inside the Fortress
Chapter 2. Marx Comes to Russia
Chapter 1. Patriots and Liberators
Chapter 1. Parliaments and Peasants
Chapter 4. For God, Tsar and Fatherland
Chapter 3. From the Trenches to the Barricades
Chapter 1. The Power of the Streets
Chapter 2. Reluctant Revolutionaries
Chapter 1. A Distant Liberal State
Chapter 1. The Illusion of a Nation
Chapter 2. A Darker Shade of Red
Chapter 3. The Man on a White Horse
Chapter 4. Hamlets of Democratic Socialism
Chapter 1. The Art of Insurrection
Chapter 2. The Smolny Autocrats
Chapter 3. Looting the Looters
Chapter 4. Socialism in One Country
Chapter 1. St Petersburg on the Steppe
Chapter 2. The Ghost of the Constituent Assembly
Chapter 1. Arming the Revolution
Chapter 2. 'Kulaks', Bagmen and Cigarette Lighters
Chapter 3. The Colour of Blood
Chapter 1. Three Decisive Battles
Chapter 2. Comrades and Commissars
Chapter 3. A Socialist Fatherland
Chapter 1. Short-cuts to Communism
Chapter 2. Engineers of the Human Soul
Chapter 3. Bolshevism in Retreat
Chapter 1. Orphans of the Revolution
Chapter 2. The Unconquered Country
Chapter 3. Lenin's Last Struggle