A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes
The Russian Revolution seized a backward, violent, peasant country and turned it into the world's first 'worker's state'. The cost in blood and misery is now known, but no fully modern narrative of those events is available which explains their violence, or the uncontrolled use of power to which they led. Figes has been able to exploit the newly-opened files in Moscow and other cities and to take a truly free look at these nightmare years, including the long civil war that ended in 1923.
Orlando Figes is a University Lecturer in History and Fellow of Trinity College, 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 a reviewer as 'one of the most important books ever published on the Russian Revolution'.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224041621 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224041622 |
| Title | A People's Tragedy |
| Author | Orlando Figes |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1996-08-29 |
| Number of pages | 960 |
| Prizes | Winner of WH Smith Literary Prize 1997, Winner of AT & T Non-Fiction Award 1997 |
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