Book · 1996 · Nonfiction
A People's Tragedy
The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 923 pages
★ 6.0 editorial score
Figes runs the Russian Revolution from the 1891 famine to Lenin's death in 1924, following peasants, soldiers, and the writer Gorky. He shows the terror arriving with the Bolsheviks, not after them.



