I read a book about the Russian Revolution!

The only history class I took in college (aside from economic history classes, which don't count) was one in "Early Modern Russian History," which ended with Catherine the Great's reign in 1796. Other than that, all my knowledge of Russia comes from reading fiction: Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Chekhov, all the way up to Solzhenitsyn and Lyudmila Petrus…