Rather than a mass uprising, McMeekin describes the October Revolution as a top-down coup or a "hostile takeover" of the Russian Imperial Army. He emphasizes that the Bolsheviks were masters of promoting mutiny and desertion to turn an imperialist war into a civil one.
Reviewers have praised the book's fast-paced narrative style, which reads more like a political thriller than a dry academic text. However, this "muscular history"—as Niall Ferguson calls it—has also sparked significant controversy. Mcmeekin Sean Nueva Historia De La Revolucion...
Rethinking 1917: A Review of Sean McMeekin’s Nueva Historia de la Revolución Rusa Rather than a mass uprising, McMeekin describes the