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A review by vtri
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
4.0
Brilliant piece of non-fiction. As all the best in this genre, it is written by a fiction writer. The book is bit of a misnomer, as it could really have been called 1917. October is just a closing chapter.
The beginning of the book is really wild. Narrative explodes and writing fizzes with details and events. As the year rumbles on, as the situation becomes more confusing and contradictory so does the text. The closing chapter provides great shift in timescale & perspective.
All in all, I wish there were more histories as accomplished as Mieville's one is.
The beginning of the book is really wild. Narrative explodes and writing fizzes with details and events. As the year rumbles on, as the situation becomes more confusing and contradictory so does the text. The closing chapter provides great shift in timescale & perspective.
All in all, I wish there were more histories as accomplished as Mieville's one is.