A People's Tragedy - The Russian Revolution 1891-1924

Pimlico, 1997. Creasing to spine, crease across top of back cover, otherwise good secondhand condition.

The Russian Revolution seized a backward, violent, peasant country and turned it into the world's first worker's state. This book utilizes newly-opened files in Moscow and other cities to find explanations for the violence and the uncontrolled use of power to which the events led. It examines the nightmare years, including the long civil war that ended in 1923...