John Reed, an American journalist and revolutionary writer and a close friend of Lenin and was an eyewitness to the 1917 revolution in Russia. Ten Days That Shook the World is Reed's extraordinary record of that event. Writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping account 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 of the chance com...

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John Reed’s "Ten Days that Shook the World" represents one of the 20th Century’s greatest political-literary achievements, being one of the first book length eye-witness accounts of the great Russian October Revolution.If you've ever read about the Russian Revolution, you've probably heard of "Ten Days That Shook the World".Reed, a U.S. communist and journalist for Metropolitan, traveled to Petrograd (currently Saint Petersburg) in 1917 to investigate what was real...

The classic account of the Russian Revolution by an American journalist who witnessed it firsthand.John Reed, an American writer for a socialist magazine, was in Petrograd when the Bolsheviks seized power in November 1917 and Russia began its transformation into the Soviet Union. Read by Lenin himself and adapted into a film by Sergei Eisenstein, Reed's eyewitness account is a masterpiece of twentieth-century reporting.Acknowledged by the author as a sympat...

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Ten Days That Shook the World is a book by American journalist John Reed, published in 1919. The book is a first-hand account of the October Revolution in Russia, which led to the rise of the Soviet Union.John Reed (1887-1920) was an American journalist, poet, and revolutionary activist who is best known for his coverage of the Russian Revolution and his book "Ten Days That Shook t...

Adventure it was, and one of the most marvellous mankind ever embarked upon, sweeping into history at the head of the toiling masses, and staking everything on their vast and simple desires. Already the machinery had been set up by which the land of the great estates could be distributed among the peasants. John ReedJohn Reeds Ten Days that Shook the World, published in 1922, is a gripping account of the Russian Revolution that took place just years earlier in the midst of World War I. Of co...

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THIS book is a slice of intensified;history as I saw it. It does not pretend to be anything but a detailed account of the November Revolution, when the Bolsheviki, at the head of the workers and soldiers, seized the state power of Russia and placed it in the hands of the Soviets.

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John Reed's "Ten Days That Shook the World" offers an incisive and gripping chronicle of the Bolshevik Revolution from the frontlines, portraying the tumult and fervor of October 1917. Written in a journalistic yet literary style, Reed's narrative blends firsthand observation with vivid description, capturing the revolutionary zeal of the moment. The text emerges as both a historical document and a passionate prose piece, steeped in the tumultuous atmosphere of early 20th-century Russia, r...