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 Bolsheviks or other urban-based parties. 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).
Writing Works on the Russian Revolution įiges's first three books were on the Russian Revolution and the Civil War. Evans as professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London. On 13 February 2017, Figes announced on Twitter that he had become a German citizen "bec I don't want to be a Brexit Brit." Career įiges was a fellow and lecturer in history at Gonville and Caius College from 1984 to 1999. In an interview with Andrew Marr in 1997, Figes described himself as "a Labour Party supporter and 'a bit of a Tony Blair man', though he confessed, when it came to the revolution, to being mildly pro- Menshevik." He divides his time between his homes in London and Umbria in Italy. He completed his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge.įiges is married to human rights lawyer Stephanie Palmer, a senior lecturer in law at Cambridge University and barrister at Blackstone Chambers London. He attended William Ellis School in north London (1971–78) and studied History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating with a double-starred first in 1982. The author and editor Kate Figes was his elder sister. His books have been translated into over thirty languages Personal life and education īorn in Islington, North London, Figes is the son of John George Figes and the feminist writer Eva Figes, whose Jewish family fled Nazi Germany in 1939. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Russian History, writes for the international press, broadcasts on television and radio, reviews for The New York Review of Books, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Figes has also constributed significantly on European history more broadly, notably with his book The Europeans (2019). A People's Tragedy is a study of the Russian Revolution, and combines social and political history with biographical details in a historical narrative.
Until his retirement, he was Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London.įiges is known for his works on Russian history, such as A People's Tragedy (1996), Natasha's Dance (2002), The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (2007), Crimea (2010) and Just Send Me Word (2012). Orlando Guy Figes ( / ɔː ˈ l æ n d ə ʊ ɡ aɪ ˈ f aɪ dʒ iː z/) is a British historian and writer.
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