1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner

A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution
Orlando Figes
Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People’s Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today. ‘A modern masterpiece’ Andrew Marr ‘The most moving account of the Russian Revolution since…
1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Shortlist

Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village
Serge Schmemann

Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West
Peter N. Stearns

Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1. The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939
Saul Friedländer
