A People's Tragedy
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891–1924 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, the response to which, Figes argues, severely weakened the Russian Empire, 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 - were all in place". According to Figes "... the whole of 1917 could be seen as a political battle between those who saw the revolution as a means of bringing the war to an end and those who saw the war as a means of bringing the revolution to an end." A People's Tragedy won the Wolfson History Prize, the WH Smith Literary Award, the NCR Book Award, the Long
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A People's Tragedy
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891–1924 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, the response to which, Figes argues, severely weakened the Russian Empire, 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 - were all in place". According to Figes "... the whole of 1917 could be seen as a political battle between those who saw the revolution as a means of bringing the war to an end and those who saw the war as a means of bringing the revolution to an end." A People's Tragedy won the Wolfson History Prize, the WH Smith Literary Award, the NCR Book Award, the Long
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A People's Tragedy: The Russia ...... luential books since the war".
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A tragédia de um povo (título ...... Los Angeles Times Book Prize".
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Tragedie van een volk (volledi ...... Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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Russian Revolution
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Jonathan Cape
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A People's Tragedy: The Russia ...... , the NCR Book Award, the Long
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A tragédia de um povo (título ...... Los Angeles Times Book Prize".
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Tragedie van een volk (volledi ...... tionaire leiders Lenin en Trot
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A People's Tragedy
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A tragédia de um povo
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Tragedie van een volk
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A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891–1924
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