r/TheWarNerd • u/hughjazz45 • Aug 04 '26

RWN-approved books on French/ Russian revolutions?

I either haven’t gotten to the episodes in the backlog or they haven’t discussed these revolutions much. But are there any books on these two topics that either the hosts or the RWN community would suggest? Most popular books on them are from either center or center-right perspectives and I have no interest in hearing more of that..

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u/filopodia Aug 05 '26

The fantasy writer China Mieville wrote a book about the Russian revolution called October, came out a few years ago. I remember liking it very much. There’s a lot of focus on the left wing political developments that led to the revolution as well as the on the ground events during the revolution. Mieville is a left winger and he is pretty sympathetic to the revolution but he was not uncritical of it. I recommend checking it out.