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 firs
Ten Days That Shook the World
β Scribed by John Reed; William Benton Whisenhunt
- Publisher
- Slavica Publishers
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 347
- Series
- Americans in Revolutionary Russia
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
"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.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Editorβs Introduction
Editorβs Note
Acknowledgments
Preface
Notes and Explanations
Chapter I. Background
Chapter II. The Coming Storm
Chapter III. On the Eve
Chapter IV. The Fall of the Provisional Government
Chapter V. Plunging Ahead
Chapter VI. The Committee for Salvation
Chapter VII. The Revolutionary Front
Chapter VIII. Counter-revolution
Chapter IX. Victory
Chapter X. Moscow
Chapter XI. The Conquest of Power (See Appendix, note 52)
Chapter XII. The Peasantsβ Congress
Appendix
Index
Illustrations
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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