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A People's Tragedy: the Russian Revolution 1891-1924
A People's Tragedy the Russian Revolution 18911924 Author:Orlando Figes A People's Tragedy is an award-winning book written by British historian Orlando Figes. First published in 1996, it chronicles Russian history from the Famine of 1891-1892, to the death of Lenin in 1924, when "the basic elements of the Stalinist regime - the one-party state, the system of terror and the cult of the personality ... more »- were all in place".
A People's Tragedy won the Wolfson History Prize, the WH Smith Literary Award, the NCR Book Award, the Longman/History Today Book Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.« less