In this scholarly reduction of the Russian Revolution, Figes (A People's Tragedy, etc.), professor of history at Birbeck College, London, and Kolonitskii, senior researcher at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, examine the minutiae of political culture circa 1917, concluding that the often-neglected struggles played out in popular cultureAvia rumors, jokes, flag waving and singingAhad significant impacts on political events in Russia. "The demonization of the old regime was a vital means of legitimizing and enforcing unity around the revolution," the authors argue. They then offer extensive examples from letters, movies, postcards and newspapers that demonstrate the popular conclusion that the empress was a German spy and a woman of loose sexual morals and that her husband was a weak cuckold. Most interesting is an analysis of the use of the same symbols by opposing forcesAmany political parties opposing the Romanov monarchy, such as Mensheviks,...

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