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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
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This was completely fascinating and I'm now a little bit obsessed with the Russian revolution. Grateful for the extensive annotated bibliography.
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This is a great overview that catches the moment in history. I'd recommend it as a second or third read on the subject as one could get lost in the details if unfamiliar with the topic.
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Having read a fair amount of WW1 history in the past few years, I wanted a single volume account of what happened in Russia that led to the Revolution and the ensuing treaty of Brest-Litovsk that ended the fighting with Germany (& Austria) on the Eastern Front.
Mieville is obviously fascinated with the party politics (Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, SRs, Kadets, etc.) and the committees and negotiations of provisional government(s) and soviet(s), but it was convoluted and seemed a bit much for one book. At other times when recounting the workers' movements, or Lenin in exile, he is more concise and compelling.
He is guilty of 2 sins I have myself:
(1) long sentences with multiple subordinate clauses that occasionally leave you going back to the start to re-read.
(2) "Scrabble" words (autotelic, jacqueries, glossolalic, etc.) that, although apt, leave you scrambling for the dictionary and sensing he is showing off his vocabulary.
So: cautiously recommended, but I am going to keep looking for a 'definitive' summary of Russia, 1917.
Mieville is obviously fascinated with the party politics (Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, SRs, Kadets, etc.) and the committees and negotiations of provisional government(s) and soviet(s), but it was convoluted and seemed a bit much for one book. At other times when recounting the workers' movements, or Lenin in exile, he is more concise and compelling.
He is guilty of 2 sins I have myself:
(1) long sentences with multiple subordinate clauses that occasionally leave you going back to the start to re-read.
(2) "Scrabble" words (autotelic, jacqueries, glossolalic, etc.) that, although apt, leave you scrambling for the dictionary and sensing he is showing off his vocabulary.
So: cautiously recommended, but I am going to keep looking for a 'definitive' summary of Russia, 1917.
I don't have the brainpower at the moment to think critically about this right now.
China Miéville narra os eventos que ocorreram entre fevereiro e outubro* na Revolução Russa de 1917 (* calendário juliano).
Não posso dizer que agora entendo a Revolução Russa; mesmo com as detalhadas explicações de Miéville é bem complicado absorver as várias mudanças políticas que ocorreram nesse período.
O livro ainda não tem tradução para o português.
Não posso dizer que agora entendo a Revolução Russa; mesmo com as detalhadas explicações de Miéville é bem complicado absorver as várias mudanças políticas que ocorreram nesse período.
O livro ainda não tem tradução para o português.
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Found it a little boring but very informative, Trotsky is my bbg
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