October

So this is a narrative non-fiction work. What I mean by that is that Mieville tells this as a story and not just a dry recitation/list of who did what and when. Very focused on the October Revolution with enough (but not a lot) of background for newcomers to this history to not feel lost. Also he stops at the moment revolution starts, because well we know how it ends and how the revolution was betrayed. Read it a primer or as a tightly focused story, it works both ways.