Labor and Rebellion: Writers on the Revolution

Seventeen about Seventeen Under this cover are collected stories by seventeen Russian writers about the year seventeen – not a calendar date, but a great historical event, the significance of which has not been fully comprehended even a century later. What was it – the Great Catastrophe, the Great Victory? Or has nothing yet ended, and the revolution really has no end, as sung in a Soviet song? Well-known writers and authors at the beginning of their creative journey paint their own October – unexpected, unlike any others, but always bright and interesting. A dozen words about October Today, in 2017, a century after the storming of the Winter Palace and the Moscow uprising, the October Revolution continues to spark debates. Was it inevitable? Why did one period in the history of the great Russian power give way to another only through the blood of civil war? What is the impact of October on the course of world history? In this collection, as in the book Seventeen about Seventeen, writers talk about October and its echoes in Odessa and Chukotka, in Paris and a village in Arkhangelsk, a hundred years ago and today.