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China Miéville: ‘Without hope there’s no drive to overturn an ugly world.’ Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian
Revolution: A new era and its contradictions
China Miéville
One hundred years ago, Lenin’s Bolshevik uprising overturned centuries of feudalism in Russia. But what does it mean for the world today?
Vladimir Lenin addresses the crowd in Red Square in 1919. Photograph: Heritage Images/Getty Images
A Communist party activist with a banner of Joseph Stalin at a May Day rally in Moscow. Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images

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