/lit/ - Literature

>>10202812
Mieville's "October" is probably the most acessible for a contemporary reader, it just came out for the 100th anniversary. There's also "Ten Days that Shook the World" by John Reed, who was actually there.

>>10061810
You do it by depicting what they fought against as even worse - in the case of Bolsheviks it's easy, since Nicholas II, Rasputin and the Okhrana were almost cartoonishly vicious and despotic. ISIS is harder, but you could depict the desperation and fury of a man who had his village destroyed by US drone strikes, for instance, and use that as the motivator for his actions. Or make him a tragic figure, preyed on by manipulative clerics with their own agenda. There's all sorts of options if you just use a little imagination.

Is this a thorough history for the centennial year? I don't mean a reference work, necessarily, but one that's been researched beyond superficial level.

>>9708731
Needs pic related

Who /hype/ for this?