Revolutions 1917: Recounts and Rehearsals
Book Review: China Mieville. *October: The Story of the Russian Revolution*; Tariq Ali. *The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution*
China Mieville. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. London: Verso, 2017; Tariq Ali. The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution. London: Verso, 2017.
IN AN INTERVIEW HE GAVE to discuss his new book, October, China Mieville observed that to his surprise, there has been comparatively little published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution. This means that public commentary and reflection on the revolution is inevitably poorer as a result, and that more expectation is piled onto those books that have come out.
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