Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Changed the World

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

From the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao’s stunning victory in October 1949, and Fidel’s triumphant arrival in Havana, in January 1959, the history of the twentieth century was transformed in dramatic and profound ways by the Russian, Chinese and Cuban revolutions.

In Three Revolutions, the stories of these epoch-...