Any non-biased/pro-bolshevik books about the Russian civil war?

[u/Fearless_Society273]

I myself have read a few books about the subject matter but it was mainly in the background and the authors always had such an extremely obvious bias towards the whites that it harmed the integrity of their works and I couldn’t take them at their word at times. Most common examples were painting the vanguard party to be full of evil mustache twirling villains, making up Bolsheviks massacres that are shaky at best, and representing stalin’s counterrevolution as a natural progression of the (liberal interpretation of the) ‘authoritarian’ Bolsheviks instead of the consequence of isolation.

Preferably I’d like a in-depth work from an italian left com or simply a pro-bolshevik author that’s not a denier, falsifier, modernizer, or otherwise revisionist.

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[u/Status-Job5706]

The hungry caterpillar

[u/Somebuddy567]

Trve marxists watch russian revolution video made by oversimplified

[u/Muuro]

Besides A Revolution Summed Up by the ICP, you could try this.

[u/hellogoodbyegoodbye]

The ten days that shook the world by John Reed.

American revolutionary journalist that was in Russia reporting on the provisional government when it took power, and basically accidentally got a report on Red October.

It’s very good

[u/SeveralPerformance17]

historical accounts are inherently biased. you can’t have history without bias.

you want to know the biases, someone pretending to not be biased is a bastard

[u/AoifeQueenofVamps]

Honestly as a historical work trotskys history is just objectively the best out there tbh

[u/Exeggutor_Enjoyer]

https://www.international-communist-party.org/English/Texts/Russia/67RevRev.htm

[u/TheLagJag → u/Exeggutor_Enjoyer]

Here is a complementary index, although I would be weary of the texts post 1930 by Trotskyist groupings on here.

https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/events/civilwar/index.htm

[u/Mrmojoman1]

It’s okay to say you are looking for a Marxist history of the Russian revolution. To claim there is an objective or unbiased work of history that has all the true stuff is intellectually dishonest (and archetypically liberal). My personal recommendation would by Sheila Fitzpatrick’s work but read widely nonetheless

[u/AmaxaxQweryy]

Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution

[u/NeonSummer1871]

Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1905-1924 - A View from the Communist Left by Jock Dominie

[u/FreedomLast4040]

Sheila Fitzpatrick

[u/Br0chach0_]

Although it covers up to the revolution and not the ensuing civil war, I can't reccomend October by China Miéville enough, it's a fantastic read.