A People's Tragedy Orlando Figes

Name: A People's Tragedy By Orlando Figes
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A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes

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Vast in scope, based on exhaustive original research, and written with passion, narrative skill and human sympathy, A People's Tragedy is the definitive account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. It has won the Wolfson History Prize, the W. H. Smith Literary Award, and the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award.

A People's Tragedy Summary

A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes

A People's Tragedy Reviews

"A modern masterpiece" -- Andrew Marr
"Combines dramatic power, absorbing narrative and magisterial scholarship - a magnificent tour de force" -- Christopher Andrew * Sunday Telegraph *
"The most moving account of the Russian Revolution since Doctor Zhivago" -- Lucasta Miller * Independent *
"This book is not just a history; it is an item of history" -- Neal Ascherson * Independent on Sunday *
"A People's Tragedy will do more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know" -- Eric Hobsbawm * London Review of Books *

About Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes is a professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, and former University Lecturer in History at Cambridge. Born in London in 1959, he graduated with a double-starred first in History from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1982. His first book, Peasant Russia, Civil War, was described by one reviewer as 'one of the most important books ever published on the Russian Revolution'. His website can be found at www.orlandofiges.co.uk

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Sku

GOR001313342

ISBN 13

9780712673273

ISBN 10

071267327X

Title

A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes

Author

Orlando Figes

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

1997-07-31

Number of pages

960

Prizes

Winner of WH Smith Literary Prize 1997 Winner of AT & T Non-Fiction Award 1997

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