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6 book picks worth a look

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The Russian Revolution: A New History

Sean McMeekin · 2017

A brisk, argumentative narrative that puts workers, soldiers and the shop floor at the centre of 1917 while ranging across the empire, matching the reader's taste for strong-willed synthesis in the Figes and Pipes line.

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

China Mieville · 2017

A vivid, novelistic retelling that lingers on factory committees, Petrograd streets and the everyday voices of 1917, extending the immersive, scene-driven pleasure of Ten Days That Shook the World.

A People's History of the Russian Revolution

Neil Faulkner · 2017

Tells 1917 from below, through soldiers, workers and peasants, exactly the voices the standard lists skip, in a clear narrative built for general readers.

The Russian Civil War

Evan Mawdsley · 1987

A clear, readable military and social history of the civil war that shows how the conflict was fought and suffered far from Petrograd and Moscow, including the countryside and the non-Russian borderlands.

The Russian Revolution, 1917

Rex A. Wade · 2000

A concise, readable account that gives unusual weight to workers, soldiers and the shop floor politics of the revolutionary year, ideal for a general reader who wants the social texture the classics often skim.

The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

S. A. Smith · 2002

A compact, reliable orientation that gives the social and nationalities history its due, useful as a map before the deeper memoirs and novels.

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