October - China Miéville

Multi-award-winning author China Miéville captures the drama of the Russian Revolution in this “engaging retelling of the events that rocked the foundations of the twentieth century” (Village Voice).“Cinematic and vivid.” —Newsweek“An excellent work of art.” —Los Angeles Review of BooksIn February of 1917 Russia was a backwards, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world’s first workers’ state, straining to be at the vanguard... Zobrazit více