Interview: A story of human liberation
Writer and campaigner Alan Gibbons spoke to Socialist Review about his latest novel, Winds of October
Why did you decide to write a novel about the Russian Revolution?
In the run up to the one hundred years anniversary I fully expected that there would be a rash of books about the revolution. As it approached however it was clear that apart from China Mieville’s Book, October, the book by Dave Sherry and a book by Neil Faulkner there was very little coming out and no fiction so I very quickly wrote the first part of this trilogy in ten days followed by the second one and all being well I’ll write the final part.