A PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY
Orlando Figes
Copyright © Orlando Figes, 1996
ISBN: 0670859168
Illustrations x
Preface xv
Glossary xix
Notes on Dates xxi
Maps xxiii
1 The Dynasty 3
i The Tsar and His People 3
ii The Miniaturist IS
iii The Heir 24
2 Unstable Pillars 35
i Bureaucrats and Dressing-Gowns 35
ii The Thin Veneer of Civilization 42
iii Remnants of a Feudal Army 55
iv Not-So-Holy Russia 61
v Prison of Peoples 69
3 Icons and Cockroaches 84
i A World Apart 84
ii The Quest to Banish the Past 102
4 Red Ink 122
i Inside the Fortress 122
ii Marx Comes to Russia 139
5 First Blood 157
i Patriots and Liberators 157
ii 'There is no Tsar' 173
iii A Parting of Ways 192
6 Last Hopes 213
i Parliaments and Peasants 213
ii The Statesman 221
iii The Wager on the Strong 232
iv For God, Tsar and Fatherland 241
7 A War on Three Fronts 253
i Metal Against Men 253
ii The Mad Chauffeur 270
iii From the Trenches to the Barricades 291
8 Glorious February 307
i The Power of the Streets 307
ii Reluctant Revolutionaries 323
iii Nicholas the Last 339
9 The Freest Country in the World 354
i A Distant Liberal State 354
ii Expectations 361
iii Lenin's Rage 384