China Miéville, "October"
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2017
- www.politics-prose.com/book/97...
Presenting the Russian Revolution as both a landmark political event and as a breathtaking story, Miéville, author of London’s Overthrow and Between Equal Rights, along with fiction that has won the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Arthur C. Clarke awards, gives a detailed and vivid rundown of how an autocratic monarchy became the world’s first socialist state in just nine months. It happened in two stages, starting with the February Revolution, which rid the country of the Tsar and installed a Provisional Government. Consisting largely of members of the former imperialist Duma, this Provisional Government was itself overturned in October, after Socialists consolidated power via the Soviets, or workers’ councils. Miéville captures the era’s chaos as well as its exhilaration.
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China Miéville is a genius
Brilliant!
Great interview.
At the beginning it looks like she is giving him a massage
hahaha
Who is the writer that China refers to about 9mins in, sounds like Anna Covan? I can't make it out and am not familiar with them but anyone he lists as up there with Ballard and Carter must be worth checking out!
Calum MacLeod Anna Kavan would be my guess. Well worth reading, either way.
Calum MacLeod Sci-Fi writer, Anna Carven?
Westerners seem not understand how lucky they were they never had their own red revolution
Thank you for saying it. You're right. The actuality of abstract ideas imposed forcefully on at least half of the population can only lead to widespread violence and destruction. To expect all aspects of culture to be reduced overnight to a 'tabula rasa' and 'Year Zero' and restart it all, is simply to wish for an inhuman order that will not improve on anything at all. The woman speaking from about 5:00' says she's not interested in 'character' in novels or in their development, but in 'action and big thoughts', is telling: it's a denial of the importance of the individual, as against ideologies and force of WILL, which is what Chairman Mao might have said. No wonder the Bolsheviks did not like Dostoyevsky.
Yeah haha so lucky *chuckles in debt, homelessness, imperialist war, wages outpaced by inflation...*
What about the Catalonian Revolution in the Spanish Civil War? It's funny that every anti-communist always conveniently leaves that one out. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that it was maybe the most democratic society ever established that was put down by the western powers in conjunction with Franco's facist forces.
China Melville he is a great person, as well as an excellent writer, he won't change a thing about this horrible ultra-liberal capitalism, but he remains great. An affectionate greeting from Milan Italy