Abstract
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of 1917 many works have been republished, but new research is rare. The once fierce quarrel between totalitarianists and revisionists has dispersed and was replaced by a new consensual, all integrating narrative, including events, politicians, social structures and culture. Nobody questions any more that the “Great October” was a coup and not a revolution. A new trend in historiography is focusing on details, contingent events and contradictions, thus denying long believed causalities. So the social, political and economic situation is explained as background, but it was the war which caused the revolution. Convincing is Merridales history of space “Lenin’s Train” and overwhelming to read is Slezkines apocalyptic saga of “The House of Government”.
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