Ten Days That Shook the World



Ten Days That Shook the World
is John Reed’s eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and the chance comments of bystanders, set against an idealized backcloth of the proletariat, soldiers, sailors, and peasants uniting to throw off oppression, Reed’s account is the product of passionate involvement and remains an unsurpassed classic of reporting.

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Ten Days That Shook the World



Ten Days That Shook the World
is John Reed’s eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and the chance comments of bystanders, set against an idealized backcloth of the proletariat, soldiers, sailors, and peasants uniting to throw off oppression, Reed’s account is the product of passionate involvement and remains an unsurpassed classic of reporting.

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Ten Days That Shook the World
is John Reed’s eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and the chance comments of bystanders, set against an idealized backcloth of the proletariat, soldiers, sailors, and peasants uniting to throw off oppression, Reed’s account is the product of passionate involvement and remains an unsurpassed classic of reporting.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780141907512
Publisher: Penguin UK
Publication date: 04/26/2007
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 3 Months

About the Author

John Reed (1887-1920) American journalist and poet-adventurer whose colorful life as a revolutionary writer ended in Russia but made him the hero of a generation of radical intellectuals. Reed became a close friend of V.I. Lenin and was an eyewitness to the 1917 October revolution. He recorded this historical event in his best-known book TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD (1920). Reed is buried with other Bolshevik heroes beside the Kremlin wall.

Table of Contents

IntroductionVII
Introduction7
Preface9
Chronology15
Notes and Explanations19
1Background29
2The Coming Storm42
3On the Eve63
4The Fall of the Provisional Government88
5Plunging Ahead117
6The Committee for Salvation145
7The Revolutionary Front164
8Counter-Revolution181
9Victory200
10Moscow219
11The Conquest of Power231
12The Peasants' Congress255
Appendixes273
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