一九一七年的俄國革命是二十世紀政治史上一個重要的事件，在震撼世界的十天裡，為世界帶來一連串的騷亂與迴響。俄國革命所釋放的能量，至今仍直接或間接地影響整個世界政治的運轉。
本書主要在探索這場革命發生的原因以及過程。從一八六一年解放農奴開始，一直到一九一七年冬天布爾什維克黨取得政權，建立蘇維埃政府為止。解放農奴的法案通過後，俄帝國緊接著行政組織的改革，但多數法案卻含糊且矛盾。改革產生了新的社會、政治與思想的活力，但這些力量卻與當下的沙皇體制捍恪。於是人民的力量在壓縮許久後爆發，終促成了俄國人民的革命….

乌克兰，地处欧亚大草原西缘文明的断层线上，诞生于东方和西方的相遇，许多个世纪以来都是通往欧洲的门户。当战争和冲突到来，关闭的欧洲之门成为阻挡东来或西来侵略者的屏障，而当欧洲之门开启，乌克兰就成为连接欧洲与亚洲、东方与西方的枢纽。
从希罗多德时代开始，乌克兰大地见证了两千年来帝国的起起落落，经历了世界秩序的多次变更。定居和游牧、东正教与天主教……不同的文明在此接触，塑造出乌克兰独特的边境身份。它是欧洲的面包篮，也一度成为杀戮的战场。从罗马帝国到奥斯曼帝国，从哈布斯堡王朝到罗曼诺夫王朝，甚至希特勒的第三帝国，每个帝国都索求乌克兰的土地与财富，在这片土地上留下自己的印记。
直到今日，乌克兰仍是东西方力量冲突的焦点。若不理解两千年以来塑造东欧的复杂力量，就看不清当前牵动世界的动荡。哈佛大学乌克兰研究院院长浦洛基以同情的理解，写下欧洲之门所经历、所见证的两千年，为理解东方与西方的过去、现在和未来，补足了拼图上缺失的一块。

How does the excessive bureaucratization of central planning affect politics in communist countries? Mark Beissinger suggests an answer through this history of the Soviet Scientific Management movement and its contemporary descendants, raising at the same time broader questions about the political consequences of economic systems.
Beissinger traces the rise and decline of administrative strategies throughout Soviet history, focusing on the roles of managerial technique and disciplinary coercion. He argues that over-bureaucratization leads to a succession of national crises of effectiveness, which political leaders use to challenge the power of entrenched elites and to consolidate their rule. It also encourages leaders to resort to radical administrative strategies—technocratic utopias, mass mobilization, and discipline campaigns—and gives rise to a cycling syndrome, as similar problems and solutions reappear over time. Beissinger gives a new perspective and interpretation of Soviet history through the prism of organizational theory. He also provides a comprehensive history of the Soviet rationalization movement from Lenin to Gorbachev that describes the recurring attractions and tensions between politicians and management experts, as well as the reception accorded Western management techniques in the Soviet factory and management-training classroom.
Beissinger uses a number of unusual sources: the personal archive of Aleksei Gastev, the foremost Soviet Taylorist of the 1920s; published Soviet archival documents; unpublished Soviet government documents and dissertations on management science and executive training; interviews with Soviet management scientists; and the author’s personal observations of managers attending a three-month executive training program in the Soviet Union. Beissinger’s skillful handling of this singular material will attract the attention of political scientists, historians, and economists, especially those working in Soviet studies.

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★梁文道、刘瑜、熊培云、许知远联袂主编——“理想国译丛”（MIRROR）系列之一（025）——保持开放性的思想和非功利的眼睛，看看世界的丰富性与复杂性。本书由张建华专文导读，精辟地点出了俄国文化中“文学中心主义”的特质及“娜塔莎之舞”代表的俄罗斯民族性格和民族心理，以及作者费吉斯如何结合史学与文学呈现俄罗斯文化的复杂多变。
★《娜塔莎之舞》通过托尔斯泰的名著《战争与和平》探索俄罗斯文化深刻复杂的多重面向，展现上层阶级的欧洲文化与农民的俄罗斯文化之间的分歧和复杂互动，以及“文明”和“本土”两个俄罗斯之间的对抗如何对19世纪以降的民族意识和文学艺术起到了至关重要的影响。
★《娜塔莎之舞》从俄罗斯芭蕾、绘画、诗歌、戏剧、音乐，到托尔斯泰、普希金、陀思妥耶夫斯基等文豪绚烂的作品中，描绘出浓厚的俄罗斯情感，展现“俄罗斯灵魂”的建构，以及在西化的冲击下，俄国人“文化认同”和“身份认同”的创伤。
★《纽约时报》《时代周刊》《每日电讯报》等媒体年度瞩目好书，入围“萨缪尔·约翰逊奖”“达夫• 库珀奖”决选名单。
【内容简介】
在托尔斯泰的名著《战争与和平》里，娜塔莎，这位自小接受法国教育的贵族小姐，爱唱歌、跳舞，不论苏格兰舞、英吉利茲舞，还是俄罗斯民间舞，她都能翩翩起舞，展现婀娜多姿、优雅动人的俄罗斯风情。奥兰多•费吉斯通过“娜塔莎之舞”，重新诠释《战争与和平》这部巨作，介绍托尔斯泰、普希金、陀思妥耶夫斯基、柴可夫斯基、契诃夫、斯特拉文斯基、肖斯塔科维奇等伟大的作家和艺术家，以散文般的优美笔触再现广袤质朴、包容一切的俄罗斯。
《娜塔莎之舞》通过对18世纪兴起的俄罗斯芭蕾、绘画、诗歌、戏剧和音乐等讨论，探索俄罗斯文化中欧洲文明与民间元素之间的分歧，“文明”和“本土”两个俄罗斯之间的对抗，以及贵族上流社会和底层农村民众间的分裂。书中更进一步讨论“俄罗斯灵魂”和“俄罗斯性”的建构与表现，揭示政治、国族认同、社会观念、风俗習惯、民间艺术、宗教等对俄罗斯文化的形成和发展所产生的影响，呈现出一幅充满戏剧性的细节、辉煌炫丽的文化长卷。
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有关俄国的一切都需要是最优秀的，费吉斯写的俄国历史也一样，而他也再一次做到了这一点。他的书写流畅优美，充满令人拍案的智慧和生活气息。他对大量文献做了轻松、恢宏而广泛的研究，所涉范围从贵族的信件到斯大林的档案，分析简洁而充满才情。这一对俄国文化卓越、炫丽而高明的导览，生动有趣、故事性强，令人着迷。——西蒙·蒙蒂菲奥里，《耶路撒冷三千年》作者
费吉斯对这一主题的写作与众不同。他取材广泛，语言生动、紧凑，充满戏剧性的细节，对私人生活的书写尤其别具一格。——约瑟夫·弗兰克，《伦敦图书评论》
内容详实，包含大量插图，阐释了作者对这个既野蛮又智慧，拥有高度艺术成就的文明的深刻洞见。这本书为我们展现了一个神秘与理性、“东方”与“欧洲”之间的俄罗斯。——丽莎•雅丁，《观察家新闻报》
这是一部非常有趣，同时又让读者几乎能切身闻到“俄国泥土的气息”，这个不可能的任务被费吉斯教授完成了……他为我们讲述了俄国大地下的文化根源、它的荒谬和天才，它的人性与残酷。这是一个令人肃然起敬的成就。——乔弗里•古德曼，《论坛报》
奥兰多•费吉斯成功地描述了俄国文化的无比深厚和强大力量，概述了俄国历史上的重要问题和事件。他以一种让读者更深刻理解俄国的方式来书写，这种方式比仅仅去叙述统治者如何专制、征服者如何残暴和战争如何残酷更高明。用俄国人自己的话谈“俄罗斯问题”，如何寻找亚洲之根，探求俄国农民之谜，如何养育出如此多的伟大作家、诗人、画家和作曲家，是其著作的过人之处。——谢尔盖•施梅曼，《纽约时报》
对俄国文化史的全面描写，主题广博，观点宏大。——安妮·阿普尔鲍姆，《标准晚报》年度图书
内容极为丰富，读来引人入胜……随处可见闪光的情节，以及犀利、动人，有时还带有几分诙谐的描写……是一部关于大国俄罗斯之性格的无可匹敌的洞见之作。——皮尔斯·布伦登，《老骨头》年度图书
绝妙地丰富……恢宏且深具说服力……一次愉悦无比的阅读体验。——安东尼·比弗，美国作家
奥兰多•费吉斯的故事……涉猎广泛并且讲的漂亮。带着他对生动散文的精妙目光，他描绘的世界变得栩栩如生。书中收录的彩色插图非常漂亮，而批判性的文献目录也是一个有用的补充，它收录了俄国文化史不同领域中许多新近出版的（英语）专著。……阅读这本书完全是一种享受，它也同样值得收藏。——卡洛琳•布鲁克，英国伦敦国王玛丽学院俄国史教授
激动人心……这部优秀的史学著作的题目取自《战争与和平》，贵族女主角娜塔莎·罗斯托娃下意识地跳起了农民的披肩舞……一本令人相见恨晚的书。——《星期日独立报》

This 2002 study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987 - the disintegration of the Soviet state - became the seemingly inevitable by 1991, providing an original interpretation not only of the Soviet collapse, but also of the phenomenon of nationalism more generally. Probing the role of nationalist action as both cause and effect, Beissinger utilizes data and case studies from across the USSR during its final years to elicit the shifting relationship between pre-existing structural conditions, institutional constraints, and event-generated influences in the nationalist explosions that brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union. As Beissinger demonstrates, the 'tidal' context of nationalism - i.e., the transnational influence of one nationalism upon another - is critical to an explanation of the success and failure of particular nationalisms, why some nationalisms turn violent, and how a crescendo of events can overwhelm states, periodically evoking large-scale structural change in the character of the state system.

本书是俄罗斯著名历史学家、俄罗斯联邦国家档案馆前馆长谢?弗?米罗年科博士的开山力作，也是19世纪初俄国政治史研究领域的重要作品。作者使用全新档案资料研究了俄国专制政权尝试对其根本基础进行改革的一些举措以及围绕改革方案所发生的斗争和改革计划的破产，揭示了十二月党人运动产生的根源，生动刻画了亚历山大一世以及那一时代著名国务活动家的历史肖像。
作者简介

《俄罗斯文明的起源与意义》一书是俄罗斯学术界首次对俄罗斯现代文明的特点进行多方面的系统研究。该书不仅确立了俄罗斯现代文明这一概念，揭示出自彼得大帝改革就开始呈现的稳定性，而且阐述了俄罗斯现代文明有别于古今其他文明的重要特征。书中详细分析了俄罗斯现代文明的特点：自然地理特征、地缘政治意义、对生命意义的认识、交际特点、男女关系特点、俄罗斯的性革命、城市文化等。
本书对彼得改革以来的俄国做出了全新阐释，指出俄罗斯现代文明发端于彼得大帝的改革，但彼得改革并不是俄国西欧主义发展之路的开端。整个18世纪是俄罗斯现代文明初步形成阶段，到19世纪初叶俄罗斯现代文明最终确立。作者认为，俄罗斯历史上所发生的社会、经济和政治动荡对深层次的文明结构并未产生实质性的影响，俄罗斯文明结构（国民性格和精神理念，生活和思维方式的基本特征）在总体上大致保持住了“不同于其他文明的几乎所有的特点”。
本书涉及的问题覆盖面极为广泛，直接或间接涉及到现当代俄罗斯现实的热门话题。对想要深入了解俄罗斯、关注俄罗斯命运的中国读者具有重要参考价值。

作者以统计资料为基础，全面分析俄国农业的演变历程，深入探讨不同经济社会条件下国家调节粮食市场的可能性和手段，以及向战时共产主义政策的过渡等若干问题。本书从学术价值看，粮食市场及其调节始终是世界经济的主要问题之一，同时战争和革命时期俄国调节粮食市场的政策又富有其自身的特点；就理论价值而言，本书着眼于从经济角度剖析非常时期国家调节军队和居民粮食供给的手段，涉及市场调节方式、价格形成过程、供求关系等重要经济理论。

Amazon.com Review
Written in a narrative style that captures both the scope and detail of the Russian revolution, Orlando Figes's history is certain to become one of the most important contemporary studies of Russia as it was at the beginning of the 20th century. With an almost cinematic eye, Figes captures the broad movements of war and revolution, never losing sight of the individuals whose lives make up his subject. He makes use of personal papers and personal histories to illustrate the effects the revolution wrought on a human scale, while providing a convincing and detailed understanding of the role of workers, peasants, and soldiers in the revolution. He moves deftly from topics such as the grand social forces and mass movements that made up the revolution to profiles of key personalities and representative characters.
Figes's themes of the Russian revolution as a tragedy for the Russian people as a whole and for the millions of individuals who lost their lives to the brutal forces it unleashed make sense of events for a new generation of students of Russian history. Sympathy for the charismatic leaders and ideological theorizing regarding Hegelian dialectics and Marxist economics--two hallmarks of much earlier writing on the Russian revolution--are banished from these clear-eyed, fair-minded pages of A People's Tragedy. The author's sympathy is squarely with the Russian people. That commitment, together with the benefit of historical hindsight, provides a standpoint Figes take full advantage of in this masterful history. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
Packed with vivid human detail and incident, British historian Figes's monumental social and political history spans Russia's entire revolutionary period, from the czarist government's floundering during the famine of 1891 to Lenin's death in 1924, by which time all the basic institutions of the Soviet dictatorship?a privileged ruling elite, random terror, secret police, torture, mass executions, concentration camps?were in place. Figes dismantles any number of myths surrounding the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917, a military coup rammed through at Lenin's insistence ("hardly any of the Bolshevik leaders had wanted it to happen until a few hours before it began"). Using diaries, letters, memoirs and archival documents, Cambridge don Figes provides masterful portraits of cynical, power-hungry Lenin, driven by an absolute faith in his mission; Alexander Kerensky, weak-willed, vain democratic leader, the self-styled savior of Russia; writer Maxim Gorky, plagued by the fear?and later by the terrible realization?that the "people's revolution" was a descent into barbarism; Tolstoyan peasant reformer Sergei Semenov; and dozens of lesser-known figures. In this vibrant magnum opus, Figes illumines the manifold sources of Russia's failure to take a democratic path. Illustrations not seen by PW.
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