A true story of love and survival in the Gulag, Soviet labour camp | Orlando Figes | 5x15

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Born in London in 1959, he graduated with a Double-Starred First from Cambridge University, where he was a Lecturer in History and Fellow of Trinity College from 1984 to 1999. He is the author of many books on Russian history, including A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924, which in 1997 received the Wolfson Prize, the NCR Book Award, the W.H. Smith Literary Award, the Longman/History Today Book Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia (2002) which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize; and The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (2007). His latest book is Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag.

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