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

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

ISBN 10: 1847922910 / ISBN 13: 9781847922915

Published by Bodley Head, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

Title: A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution ...

Publisher: Bodley Head

Publication Date: 2014

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

The first single-volume history of the century's most tragic and brutal revolution; a brilliant, highly readable narrative in the manner of Simon Schama's Citizens.
     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.

About the Author:

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'.