October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

by China Miéville

‘One need not be a prophet to foretell that the present order of things will have to disappear.’

February and, above all, October have long been prisms through which the politics of freedom are viewed.

The conclusion that one activist, Andrei Zhelyabov, draws? ‘History is too slow.’

The future for which the Marxists yearn, communism, is as absurd to their detractors as any peasant’s Belovode.