Alan Woods, author of “Bolshevism: the Road to Revolution”, discusses the “June Days” of the 1917 Russian Revolution, when tensions in Petrograd began to rise and the masses turned towards the Bolsheviks and their slogan of “All Power to the Soviets!”

R.H. Bruce Lockhart was a British Government agent in Russia before and after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. His first-hand experiences and lucid observations, published in 1932 as a book entitled Memoirs of a British Agent, provide a fascinating account of the Russian Revolution and its key characters.

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, for those interested in understanding the causes, events and consequences of October 1917, there are dozens of books and articles to get stuck into. The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service, according to Ben Gliniecki, is not one of them.