A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution – centenary edition with new introduction

ISBN-13: 9781847924513 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 960 str.

Orlando Figes

Opis

Unrivalled and wholly immersive, Orlando Figes's A People's Tragedy is a panorama of Russian society on the eve of the revolution and the story of its violent erasure. 100th Anniversary Edition Includes New Introduction

In this acclaimed account, Figes follows workers, soldiers and peasants as their world is consumed by revolution. For what had started as a people's revolution contained the seeds of its degeneration into violence and dictatorship. A People's Tragedy is a masterful and definitive record of the Russian Revolution - vast in scope, exhaustive in original research and written with passion, narrative verve and human sympathy.

Recenzje

A modern masterpiece Andrew Marr

O autorze

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Born in London in 1959, he was previously a Lecturer in History and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. A People's Tragedy received the Wolfson Prize, the NCR Book Award, the W.H. Smith Literary Award, the Longman/History Today Book Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is the author of many other books on Russian history including Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, The Whisperers: Private life in Stalin's Russia, Crimea: the Last Crusade and Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag.