jackholloway 's review for:

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville

4.0

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Miéville focuses a lot on the back and forth of Mensheviks and Bolsheviks, and provides glimpses of popular outrage and very little on the motivations of the masses throughout 1917. I would have liked more of the latter, especially since the ongoing teetering of Bolshevik-Menshevik power struggle gets pretty repetitive. That said, it was a helpful intro for someone like me who knew very little about the revolution beforehand.