![]() ![]() I would like to consider the same question from the point of view of someone who has attempted to write such a history, to look at some of the problems more or less specific to the exercise and take the opportunity of commenting on the contrasting approaches to these problems in the two most recently published histories of the Russian revolution, Orlando Figes’ A People’s Tragedy and my own From Tsar to Soviets: the Russian People and their Revolution. Hobsbawm, of course, used it as an example to test the value of historians dealing with ‘what if’ history. Coming from someone who has written a history of the twentieth century, of which the Russian revolution comprises a rather distant component, the question is somewhat unexpected. Eric Hobsbawm has recently raised the question ‘Can wewrite the history of the Russian revolution?’. ![]()
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