In 2010, this academic was discovered to have left (*) reviews on Amazon.com under a false name in which he criticized other historians and praised his own work.
This historian's most recent book, which is titled after a poem by Anna Akhmatova, traces the long-distance relationship of a man imprisoned in a gulag and is called Just Send Me Word. His second book was the subject of harsh criticism by Richard Pipes, who alleged that it plagiarized from his work. Among the individuals chronicled in that book was the peasant Sergei Semenov, whose death illustrates this author's pessimistic view of the Russian Revolution. A later book by this man, which uses a microhistorical approach to examine the impact of state suppression on ordinary people in Stalinist Russia, is titled The Whisperers. In 2010, this academic was discovered to have left (*) reviews on Amazon.com under a false name in which he criticized other historians and praised his own work. For 10 points, name this British historian of Russia, the author of A People's Tragedy
This historian's most recent book, which is titled after a poem by Anna Akhmatova, traces the long-distance relationship of a man imprisoned in a gulag and is called Just Send Me Word.
Orlando Figes