The Bolshevik Revolution. Any recs on good books about this without rightwing slants?

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10. There is no shortage of works on this

Here are a few of my favorites:

Figes, 'A People's Tragedy' (begins in the 1890s, so you get a good picture of life before 1917)
Hasegawa, 'The February Revolution'
Lieven, 'Nicholas II: Twilight of Empire'

Some oldies but goodies:

Deutcher, 'The Prophet Armed' (first volume of his trilogy about Trotsky)
Chamberlin, 'The Russian Revolution'
Ulam, 'Lenin and the Bolsheviks'
Reed, 'Ten Days that Shook the World' (Famous account from a sympathetic American who was in Russia at the time)

Although you don't want anything by RWers, I would still recommend Pipes, 'The Russian Revolution' anyway. It's probably the most comprehensive single-volume work on the revolution in English. Just about everybody working in the field has read it. You won't agree with his some of his arguments about the Bolsheviks, but you probably will enjoy the stuff about the Tsarist government (he's just as critical of them).

This is just the tip of the iceberg, there are many other good works out there. PM me if you are interested.