The topic is beyond ambitious and the revolution’s early intellectuals generated enough material to entice any historian into a bog of trivia. Figes tells the story with both alluring passion and magisterial grasp. By the end, you grasp that Dostoyevsky merits a back seat to Lenin in authoring a profound Russian tragedy.
The topic is beyond ambitious and the revolution’s early intellectuals generated enough material to entice any historian into a bog of trivia. Figes tells the story with both alluring passion and magisterial grasp. By the end, you grasp that Dostoyevsky merits a back seat to Lenin in authoring a profound Russian tragedy.