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# i recommend watching the russian movie 'admiral' for a more entertaining take on revolution-era russian history
www.imdb.com/title/tt1101026/

or, if you're still in a reading mood, Solzhenitzyn's 'Gulag Archipelago' will not fail to make you depressed as hell, yet make you feel better for knowing what really happened during Stalin's reign. Most people in Russia haven't even read it or even understand completely what happened then.
(, Sun 30 Aug 2009, 8:50, archived)
# Have it on the shelf, and read it now and again for reference, of course.
Admiral was ok, better than many films. I've got about 15 or so different
revolutionary histories kicking about and a bunch I've put aside to storage
or sold off. I've been reading back into the 1740-1875 area at the moment.
Mainly in regards to military involvement and developments eastwards rather
than its European entanglements and the protorevolutionary aspects which
have been done to death already. I'll not tl;dr with more this late in the eve. [/:-)
(, Sun 30 Aug 2009, 9:12, archived)