To visit the free site go to www.orlandofiges.info where you will find a historical outlines, commentaries, photos, videos, and extracts from Orlando Figes's books. It argues that - although it changed in form and character - the Russian Revolution should be understood as a single cycle of 100 years, from the famine crisis of 1891 until the collapse of the Soviet regime in 1991. We will look at the revolutionaries, including Lenin, and ask how much influence they really had?

The website is designed to support courses at all levels - from GCSE to A-level, IB, undergraduate degree at university and post-graduate studies.

None of its 'leaders' expected it to happen how and when it did. Register Forced off the land, millions of peasants came into the towns, or worked in rural factories and mines. That's what makes them revolutionary. Here is a short extract of a 40-minute seminar I had with the students of the International School of Toulouse.

Find books This year's seminars will cover all the major questions you are likely to be asked in A-level and IB exams on Russian and Soviet history。. Economic Growth and Living Standards During the 1930s, Living Standards in the First Five Year Plan, Living Standards in the Second Five Year Plan.

(Julian Coman, The Observer), "Figes in his maturity is a fine, subtle writer with a nice eye for detail and clever with structure.
This free website brings together my ideas about how to teach and study the Russian Revolution and Soviet history. To accompany Revolutionary Russia there are two websites designed by Orlando Figes to help teachers and students study the Russian Revolution and Soviet history. A panoramic history of nineteenth-century European culture told through the entangled lives of the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, the singer and composer Pauline Viardot and her husband Louis Viardot, a great connoisseur,The Europeans has been published to critical acclaim in the UK and US: "Magnificent.

"Insightful and convincing... Figes integrates his analysis into a highly readable story, and he shows himself to be a master of historical narrative. He did it with the Russian Revolution in A People's Tragedy, and he does it again in The Europeans." Click here to read the reviews for The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia, © 2007 Orlando Figes | All Rights Reserved.

You will also find some extracts from books, original photographs and videos, and a reading list. A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the 19th century - and so much more." When and how did it begin?

Through the zemstvo organs of self-government established in 1864 they threw themselves into building rural schools and hospitals. The August Coup and the Collapse of the Soviet regime, War and the Change in Revolutionary Values. The Tsarist Empire was untroubled by the revolutions that shook Europe's other monarchies in 1830 and 1848. When does a 'revolutionary situation' start?

There is a small subscription fee (£49.99 per year for schools and £7.99 per year for individuals) to access these and other materials at www.revolutionaryrussia.com, © 2007 Orlando Figes | All Rights Reserved. He was educated at a local grammar school before enrolling to read history at Cambridge. To visit the free site go to www.orlandofiges.info where you will find a historical outlines, commentaries, photos, videos, and extracts from Orlando Figes's books. When Does a 'Revolutionary Situation' Start?

Its huge army crushed the Polish uprisings of 1830 and 1863, the main nationalist challenge to the Tsar's Imperial rule, while its police hampered the activities of the small groups of radicals and revolutionaries, who were mostly driven underground.

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(John Carey, Sunday Times). Orlando Figes’s fascinating book contains two stories. The Russian Revolution was long expected but came as a surprise in February 1917. (Philippe Sands), "It plunged me into another world. Section 1: Origins of the Russian Revolution.

When and how did it begin? At Cambridge, Figes completed an honours degree, then a PhD under the supervision of controversial historian Norman Stone. (This book won the Wolfson history prize, the NCR book award, the W.H.

to explain the context of these private documents and relate them to the family's history. True, only a genius could have coped with it. I finished the book entertained, informed and armed with the kinds of insights and questions that will keep me happily going for the rest of the year."

The classroom task of formulating the 'big' questions in advance, then having them answered by a leading professional historian, was highly motivational. I particularly welcome projects in cultural and social history, the politics of nationality, peasant studies and the social, political and intellectual history of the socialist and communist movements. There is a small subscription fee (£49.99 per year for schools and £7.99 for individuals) to get full access to this site. Who Was Brezhnev and What Did He Stand For?
What Lay Behind the Stability of the Soviet System Before 1985? ** regular discussions of key themes and exam questions; A selection of these archives, transcripts and sound extracts of the interviews, How Should We Explain the Violence of 1905? Click here to read the reviews for The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia Russia remained a relatively stable society until the final decades of the nineteenth century.

Orlando Figes vividly captures the 19th-century cultural blossoming of Europe in this story of a diva, her husband and her literary lover Published: 30 Sep 2019 . What were the Lessons of the 1905 Revolution? • Figes's free educational website on the Russian Revolution and Soviet history, May 2014 Read more... © 2014 Orlando Figes | All Rights Reserved. of the Stalin Terror in secret drawers and under mattresses in private homes across Russia. What were the causes of the Russian Revolution? Who Was Brezhnev and What Did He Stand For? I have a new website for schools and colleges with materials which you may use. period, reflecting the interior world of ordinary families and individuals. Who Was Stolypin and What Did He Stand For? Orlando Figes's latest book is The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture. His mother Eva Figes and his sister Kate Figes are both writers too.