Review article: "New" histories of the Russian Revolution?

Laura Engelstein, Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914–21. 823 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN-13 978-0199794218. $39.95.Sean McMeekin, The Russian Revolution: A New History. 445 pp. New York: Basic Books, 2017. ISBN-13 978-0465039906. $35.00.China Miéville, October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. 369 pp. New York: Verso, 2017. ISBN-13 978-1784782771. $26.95.Jonathan D. Smele, The "Russian" Civil Wars 1916–1926: Ten Years That Shook the World. 423 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN-13 978-0190233044. $74.00.Mark Steinberg, The Russian Revolution, 1905–21. 388 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN-13 978-0199227624. $100.00