This essay asks for the comparison of three historical monographs, which offer different interpretations of the same or related topics. This essay will focus on writings on the Russian Revolution (1818-1919), focusing in particular on the October Revolution of 1917 and Vladimir Lenin's leadership during this period. The goal of this essay is to examine how three historians, from three different schools of thought, interpreted these events and how their particular political views, evidence, and personal experiences influenced these interpretations. This will be achieved by analyzing the works of Richard Pipes; a Western liberal-conservative, Dmitri Volkogonov; a Soviet revisionist and John Reed; a socialist. A historian's interpretation of events is largely based not only on the school of thought to which he belongs, but also on his political leanings, nationality, religion, gender, and the social context within which the book was written (i.e. what was happening politically or socially at the time of publication). The first historian this essay deals with is Richard Pipes, a Polish-American historian considered one of the most prolific writers on the Russian Revolution. His book The Russian Revolution is heavily influenced by Pipes' liberal political views. Studying and living in America he developed a broadly anti-communist vision shared by most Western thinkers during the Cold War period. Pipe's published his book in 1990, during the breakup of the USSR. Pipes used a wide range of sources to construct his monograph, including accounts of people who lived through or led the revolution, opinions of Soviet historians, and documents from American archives. However thorough his research, Pipes' highlights...... half of the document ......le in the story. Works Cited Acton, Edward and William Rosenberg. Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914-1921. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1997Ayaub, Nina. "John Reed and the Writing of the Revolution". The Chronicle of Higher Education 49, no. 24 (2003): 17“The historian Dmitri Volkogonov”. History of Alpha. 2012. http://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/historian-dmitri-volkogonov/Koenker, Diane. “The Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes”. The Journal of Modern History 65, n. 2 (1993): 432.Pipes, Richard. The Russian Revolution 1899-1919. London: Collins Harvill, 1990.Reed, John. Ten days that shocked the world. England: Lawrence and Wishart, 1961Volkogonov, Dmitri. Lenin A new autobiography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994. Zinn, Howard. Howard Zinn on the story. By Staughton Lynd. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001.