β Scribed by John Reed, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, A. J. P. Taylor
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An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution
An American journalist and revolutionary writer, John Reed became 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 comments of bystanders, and set against an idealized backdrop of soldiers, sailors, peasants, and the proletariat uniting to throw off oppression, Reed's account is the product of passionate involvement and remains an unsurpassed classic of reporting.
Table of Contents......Page 2
Preface......Page 3
Chapter I. Background......Page 11
Chapter II. The Coming Storm......Page 18
Chapter III. On the Eve......Page 30
Chapter IV. The Fall of the Provisional Government......Page 47
Chapter V. Plunging Ahead......Page 65
Chapter VI. The Committee for Salvation......Page 83
Chapter VII. The Revolutionary Front......Page 95
Chapter VIII. Counter-Revolution......Page 107
Chapter IX. Victory......Page 119
Chapter X. Moscow......Page 132
Chapter XI. The Conquest of Power (See App. XI, Sect. 1)......Page 139
Chapter XII. The Peasants' Congress......Page 154
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"This is a new edition, annotated and with an introduction, of American journalist John Reed's classic eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution of 1917."--Provided by publisher.
John Reed conveys, with the immediacy of cinema, the impression of a whole nation in ferment and disintegration. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives us a record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally s
John Reed (1887-1920)βwriter and publicist, one of the founding members of the Communist Party of the USA. This book was first published in the United States in 1919 and in 1923 it came out in Russian in the USSR, where it was reprinted many times. All its printings in Russian, including the first