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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
by China Miéville
Good book. Enjoyed reading it. Just didn't quite hit home, felt a bit disorganised and even though much of the information was in summary of extremely complicated events it felt as though it was bogged down by them at times, as though going into exhausting detail while giving you none of that detail.
Admire Mieville's attempt at and in many ways succeeding at making the revolution quite accessible. Enjoyed the lightheartedness of the book and didn't find his acknowledged partisanship to present a problematic influence (though perhaps in the very brief skimming through the two decades post October it shone through the most).
The chapter on the month of October itself was great and fast-paced, really pulling out Mieville's skills as a novelist. The end of the book definitely likely to leave you yearning for a revolution that could have taken hold outside of Russia, for what could have been.
Admire Mieville's attempt at and in many ways succeeding at making the revolution quite accessible. Enjoyed the lightheartedness of the book and didn't find his acknowledged partisanship to present a problematic influence (though perhaps in the very brief skimming through the two decades post October it shone through the most).
The chapter on the month of October itself was great and fast-paced, really pulling out Mieville's skills as a novelist. The end of the book definitely likely to leave you yearning for a revolution that could have taken hold outside of Russia, for what could have been.