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October, the story of the Russian Revolution, China Mieville

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-341) and index

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China Mieville

the story of the Russian Revolution

China Mieville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down. China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive take on its history. In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later, it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country, swept up in a desperately unpopular war, rocked by not one but two revolutions? This is the story of the extraordinary months between those upheavals, in February and October, of the forces and individuals who made 1917 so epochal a year, of their intrigues, negotiations, conflicts and catastrophes. From familiar names like Lenin and Trotsky to their opponents Kornilov and Kerensky; from the byzantine squabbles of urban activists to the remotest villages of a sprawling empire; from the revolutionary railroad Sublime to the ciphers and static of coup by telegram; from grand sweep to forgotten detail

1. The Prehistory of 1917 -- 2. February: Joyful Tears -- 3. March: 'In So Far As' -- 4. April: The Prodigal -- 5. May: Collaboration -- 6. June: A Context of Collapse -- 7. July: Hot Days -- 8. August: Exile and Conspiracy -- 9. September: Compromise and Its Discontents -- 10. Red October -- Epilogue: After October

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