"A People's Tragedy" You can tell the author wants to get into the Jewish connection but can't. He'll say things throughout to the tune of "It wasn't a largely Jewish thing", and yet...brings it up a lot in ways that beg the question, and anyone who is conscious of the JQ can easily see what's going on. Other than that obvious awkwardness it's really well written and actually starts all the way back in the mid to late 1800s to set the stage for what happened. To try to sum it up, the average Russian at the time didn't give an ideological rats ass about Marxism or anything related to it. They were a group of people rightfully pissed off about their lot in life and they got taken advantage of...the first color revolution. The Red Revolution. It was the first book I read that brought up the idea that Russia was an empire before it was a nation, which is an important thing to understand to understand how and why and when the Russian revolution happened.