Il est chercheur à Cambridge de 1987 à 1999, année à partir de laquelle il occupe la chaire d'histoire du Birkbeck College. Orlando Figes's latest book is Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991 (Pelican, 2014), which draws from which draws from several of his previous books on the Russian Revolution and Soviet history. He did it with the Russian Revolution in A People's Tragedy, and he does it again in The Europeans." Orlando Figes is an outstanding historian and writer, he brings distant history so close that you could feel its heartbeat. On peut notamment citer A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution 1891-1924 et Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, livres dans lesquels il combine des qualités d'historien et d'écrivain. There is a small subscription fee (£49.99 per year for schools and £7.99 for individuals) to get full access to this site. Il étudie l'histoire à l'université de Cambridge, au Gonville and Caius College dont il sort major de promotion en 1982. Orlando Figes, né le 20 novembre 1959 à Londres, est un historien britannique, spécialiste de l'histoire de la Russie et professeur au Birkbeck College de Londres. Register with Revolutionary Russia: There is a small subscription fee (£49.99 per year for schools and £7.99 per year for individuals) to access the subscriber only materials. He als… The Weakness of Society; Unstable Pillars; The Populist Opposition; The Making of Lenin as a Revolutionary; What Sort of Marxist Was Lenin? School subscriptions benefit from multiple-instance log-in, thus enabling multiple users browsing the content at the same time. The website is designed to be used in parallel with my book Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991 (Pelican, 2014).

Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Figes's first three books were on the Russian Revolution and the Civil War. Orlando Figes is undoubtedly one of the go-to writers when it comes to the Russian Revolution.

Il contribue régulièrement au journal The Guardian et aux revues London Review of Books et New York Review of Books. Orlando Figes, writer @orlandofiges : Home; Section 1 (Pre-1905) Imperial Russia - the Failure of Reform; Was Nicholas II Fit to Rule? Using village Soviet archives, Figes emphasised the autonomous nature of the agrarian revolution during 1917–18, showing how it developed according to traditional peasant notions of social justice independently of the Provisional Government, the Bolsheviksor other urban-based parties. Orlando Figes, né le 20 novembre 1959 à Londres, est un historien britannique, spécialiste de l'histoire de la Russie et professeur au Birkbeck College de Londres. Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History Book author Orlando Figes ISBN 9780805091311 Publisher Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.

A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution 1891-1924, Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, Compagnon de la Royal Society of Literature, « Les drôles de chuchotements d'un historien », https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Orlando_Figes&oldid=168583875, Article de Wikipédia avec notice d'autorité, Portail:Époque contemporaine/Articles liés, Portail:Biographie/Articles liés/Culture et arts, licence Creative Commons attribution, partage dans les mêmes conditions, comment citer les auteurs et mentionner la licence. Achetez neuf ou d'occasion Amazon.fr - Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A Pelican Introduction - Figes, Orlando - Livres Orlando Figes a écrit de nombreux ouvrages sur l'histoire de la Russie, qui ont connu un grand succès dans le monde anglo-saxon. Orlando Figes was born in London and raised by his mother, a Jewish-German writer and feminist who fled Nazism in the late 1930s. Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991 (Pelican, 2014) draws from several of Figes’ previous books on the Russian Revolution and Soviet history. Published Apr 08, 2014 Language English Format PDF, FB2, EPUB, MOBI Pages 336 File size (in PDF) 3024 kB
The Russian Revolution was long expected but came as a surprise in February 1917. He was educated at a local grammar school before enrolling to read history at Cambridge. Orlando Figes est le fils de l'écrivain féministe Eva Figes et frère de l'éditrice Kate Figes. (Karl Ove, Knausgaard) School subscriptions benefit from multiple-instance log-in, thus enabling multiple users browsing the content at the same time. None of its 'leaders' expected it to happen how and when it did. The Conditions of the Working Class; When Does a 'Revolutionary Situation' Start? Il contribue régulièrement au journal The Guardian et aux revues London Review of Books et New York Review of Books. A People's Tragedy, using the public narrative of the likes of Rasputin and Brusilov to unravel the social and political history of the time. Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991, by Orlando Figes, Pelican, RRP£7.99, 496 pages/Metropolitan Books, RRP$28, 336 pages. Biographie. Orlando Figes has written a very readable history of Russia, beginning with the slow decay of the Empire which brought upon the famine of 1891 and the first kindling of fire which would spark the Russian Revolution in the late 19th century, and ending with the revolutions of 1989 and the final dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. La dernière modification de cette page a été faite le 20 mars 2020 à 01:20. Most revolutions are like that. Ses travaux présentent un style historiographique novateur et sont souvent rattachés à l'histoire culturelle. Peasant Russia, Civil War (1989) was a detailed study of the peasantry in the Volga region during the Revolution and the Civil War (1917–21).

Register with Revolutionary Russia: There is a small subscription fee (£49.99 per year for schools and £7.99 per year for individuals) to access the subscriber only materials. A People's Tragedy est considéré comme une référence dans la nouvelle école de l'histoire narrative (si tant est qu'une telle école existe). That's what makes them revolutionary. At Cambridge, Figes completed an honours degree, then a PhD under the supervision of controversial historian Norman Stone. Demonstration St Petersburg, 23 February 1917, Origins of the Russian Revolution, February Revolution, 1917. 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.

modifier - modifier le code - modifier Wikidata. I loved his 'Peasant Russia, Civil War' title that drew upon Soviet village life archives. Retrouvez Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A Pelican Introduction et des millions de livres en stock sur Amazon.fr.
From the author of A People’s Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreams In this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian Revolution.