Have been reading this, and I must say that I'm completely blown away by the writing. Meiville captures the frenetic and tense moments of the revolution in brilliant prose.
Also it's not a hagiography of Lenin, where everyone else's role is minimised and his elevated. It's balanced, although I must say that Lenin really comes through in the later half of the revolution. More than any of it though, I really enjoyed the nitty gritty of the making of revolution. I got that feeling that it's possible today, of course, not in the same way. It's to do with every section of society finding common cause with the horror of bourgeois rule.
If you're unfamiliar with the revolution, or your introduction to it was the history channel version of it, I highly recommend this book.
FUCK THE CADETS AND FUCK THE OCTOBERISTS MONARCHIST CUCKS ALL OF THEM
Michael Turner
I'm hundred pages and am getting worried about my boy Nick. no spoilers pls. but yeah this is pretty fucking good. Its interesting to read it in a more narrative style. the assassination of Alexander II was pretty lit
Benjamin Barnes
Lmao The SRs are revisionist as fug "Agrarian Socialism" pfft
Thomas Rivera
I want to read it but I can't handle door stoppers like it
Brody Wood
Ten Days that Shook the World is also supposed to be pretty good, though I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. It's written by an American journalist who was in Russia at the time of the October revolution.
Hudson Gutierrez
I really wanna read trotskys history too, just for fun, I bet he made everything mad inspiring and shit
