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Figes lays out a panorama of Russian society on the eve of the revolution, and then narrates the story of how these social forces were erased so violently. The huge canvas of war and revolution is supplemented by miniature histories of individuals, pieced together from their private writings, in which Figes follows the fortunes of people like the patriotic general Brusilov, the progressive peasant Semenov and the critical socialist Maxim Gorky as they saw their hopes die and their world crash into ruins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFiges thus unfolds a brilliant and novel perspective on the century's most important event. He depicts he revolution as a tragedy - both for the Russians as a people and for so many individuals whose lives became caught up in the storm. 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