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Ali, Tariq, “Top 10 books about the Russian Revolution”, The Guardian, April 12th, 2017

A century after the Bolsheviks seized power for communism, Tariq Ali chooses some of the best books about an uprising that changed the world forever.

hundred years after the Russian Revolution, history, according to most historians, had pronounced its judgment. October 1917 had been relegated to a past that would never be repeated, just like the tumbrils in Paris in 1793 or Charles I’s public execution outside the palace at Westminster. History doesn’t repeat itself, not even as a farce, but its echoes remain.

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Korine Amacher, “L’embarrassante mémoire de la Révolution russe”, La Vie des idées , 14 avril 2017.

Octobre 17 fut la référence politique et culturelle centrale de l’époque soviétique. Cent ans après, la société russe reste toujours profondément divisée face à son passé. Le centenaire de la révolution sera-t-il ce grand moment de réconciliation nationale souhaité par le pouvoir russe ?

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Fitzpatrick, Sheila, « What’s Left? » London Review of Books, March 30, 2017.

Sheila Fitzpatrick reviews October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville, Verso, 358 pp, £18.99, May, ISBN 978 1 78478 280 1, The Russian Revolution 1905-1921 by Mark D. Steinberg, Oxford, 388 pp, £19.99, February, ISBN 978 0 19 922762 4, Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 by S.A. Smith
Oxford, 455 pp, £25.00, January, ISBN 978 0 19 873482 6, The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin, Basic, 496 pp, $30.00, May, ISBN 978 0 465 03990 6, Historically Inevitable? Turning Points of the Russian Revolution by Tony Brenton, Profile, 364 pp, £25.00, June 2016, ISBN 978 1 78125 021 1

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