October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (666 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1543625517 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 481 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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But here is a book for those new to the events, told not only in their historical import but in all their passion and drama and strangeness. Because as well as a political event of profound and ongoing consequence, Mieville reveals the Russian Revolution as a breathtaking story.. 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. Historians have debated the revolution for 100 years, its portents and possibilities: the mass of literature can be daunting. The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer 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
Indeed, October bears, in certain respects, a deeper affinity to those novels than to anything else he has published since; and it thus provides a convenient opportunity to take stock of the Miéville oeuvre to dateThat October is an excellent work of art there is no doubt whatever.” —Carl Freedman, Los Angeles Review of Books “There are workers, there are peasants, there are soldiers, there are parties, there are tsars, there are courtiers. This may be the most textured, most concrete, account of what political contest and political combat, literal and metaphoric, feels like.” —Corey Robin &ld
His fiction includes The City and the City, Embassytown and This Census-Taker. Clarke awards. China Miéville is the multi-award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction. . He has written for various publications, including the New York Times, Guardian, Conjunctions and Granta, and he is a founding editor of the quarterly Salvage. His non-fiction inclu
Amazing General Introduction to The Revolution This book is magnificent. It tells the story of the revolution with an approach which is both general, and honing in on hyper specific stories within the revolution that really works to create a stunning narrative progress for the revolution. As far as general introductions to the subject go, this is almost unbeatable, and is an excel. Five Stars Collin . Driving that train Known for his post-modern fantasy and science-fiction, China Miéville enriches these genres with his expertise in international relations and critical legal studies. Educated at Cambridge and the London School of Economics, he argues in the 2005 adaptation of his doctoral thesis: "The attempt to replace war and inequality with