Next month of October the 100 years a fundamental historical fact of the past XNUMXth century: the Russian Revolution. And of course, the publishing scene has been filled with titles about her. The classic essays and historical analysis of their events and characters most relevant and influential.

For everyone interested in the subject, here they go five titles Featured that are in the first row of shelves and shop windows of all bookstores. Even more than one should take a look at them or, rather, read them well. For some time now Lenin and company have been very resurrected. Let's see.

Lenin's train - Catherine Merridale

Catherine Merridale proposes a new interpretation of these events and their protagonists. Recreate andhe train journey made by Lenin and his companions in a sealed carriage from Germany to Petrograd. The German government decided to help a group of exiled revolutionaries in Switzerland to return to Russia and help drive it out of the war. Thus, once there, Lenin defeated the aims of those who wanted the revolution to end by establishing a bourgeois republic. Its objective: the passage to socialism, to a stateless and classless society.

Merridale too narrates the opinions of those who witnessed that trip. Because they ranged from those who thought Lenin was from an idiot to those who believed that he would be imprisoned or shot as soon as he arrived. Obviously both were wrong.

The Russian Revolution - Christopher Hill

This book by historian Christopher Hill is a classic of classics about the topic. It is recovered on the occasion of the centenary. He tried to establish the place that Lenin should occupy in history "and the Revolution that was his life's work." At the same time, it is an indispensable introduction to what the Russian Revolution itself meant.

Letters from the Bolshevik Revolution - Jacques Sadoul

El first person testimony by French captain, lawyer, politician and writer Jacques Sadoul is a first-hand look at the facts.

During World War I a French delegation traveled to Russia to gain military support against the Entente. When the October Revolution broke out, Sadoul refused to return to France and began to collaborate in the organization of the Red Army. He was one of the instigators of the riots against the French occupation of Ukraine and also became one of the greatest defenders of the communist regime.

Sadoul was founder of the French Communist Party and also a controversial figure both inside and outside of him. Candidate for presidential elections, sentenced to death by a military court and always radical in his political and personal decisions.

The Russian Revolution. The factory of a new society - Maria Teresa Largo Alonso

This professor of Geography and History of Secondary Education offers us this title where analyzes the triumph of a revolution that wanted to envision a more just and egalitarian society in the huge, backward country that was Russia in the late XNUMXth century. A revolution that for the first time put a party representing the workers at the head of a great State and that spread its model throughout the world. But the successive wars of the XNUMXth century and their totalitarian drift soon frustrated the revolutionary objectives.

The chapter dedicated to the role of women is highlighted in the revolution, both those of the upper classes and that of the workers.

The Russian Revolution - Richard Pipes

Pipes, prestigious historian specializing in contemporary Russia, published in 1992 this title on the revolution that, for most critics, has not yet been surpassed. They define it as monumental and exciting because of the narration of a movement whose aim was to "turn the world upside down," according to Trotsky. Pipes describes an intellectual revolution rather than a class one, marked from the beginning by terror and with elements of a coup.