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

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

by OrlandoFiges (Author)

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    Hardcover 1996

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 960
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Published: 29 Aug 1996
ISBN 10: 0224041622
ISBN 13: 9780224041621

Media Reviews
It is by far the best history of the Russian Revolution I have ever read. -Frank McLynne From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author Bio
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'.