Thursday, 27 July 2017

China Mieville: October: The Story of the Russian Revolution


One must always try to be as radical as reality itself. - Lenin


The position of the Bolsheviks I understood, because they preached 'Down with the war and immediate peace at any price,' but I couldn't understand at all the tactics of the SRs and the Mensheviks, who first broke up the army, as if to avoid counterrevolution, and at the same time desired the continuation of the war to a victorious end.
- General Brusilov

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