Book description
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.
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.
