I'm looking for books on this subject from people that don't have anti communist and anti left biases that may make them overexagerrate the negative aspects of this time period, but I'm also obviously wanting to avoid ones that whitewash or ignore the many mistakes and bad things that DID occur during this time period, which would probably be recommended to me if I asked on the socialism or communism subreddits.
The classic text is Sheila Fitzpatrick's The Russian Revolution. Fitzpatrick was groundbreaking in examining how 1917 did reflect something of a popular will but the Bolsheviks did steer revolutionary energies into an illiberal direction. Of more recent works, S. A. Smith's Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 is probably the best work produced on the centennial of 1917. The book is neither too long nor too short. Laura Engelstein's Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914-1921 puts more focus on revolutionary violence and its attending centrifugal consequences than either Smith or Fitzpatrick. The Russian Revolution 1905-1921 by Mark D. Steinberg is another centennial text that focuses more on the larger margins of revolutionary actors and what they wanted out of revolution. Finally, to grasp at the historians' controversies of the Russian Revolution, Ronald Suny's Red Flag Unfurled: History, Historians, and the Russian Revolution covers the contentious historiography of the event.