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"This book is a slice of intensified history--history as I saw it." So begins John Reed's first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Much anticipated when it was published in 1919, Reed's narrative remains as riveting today as when the events he describes were still... Read Full Overview

Ten Days That Shook the World (1919) is a book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders closely during his time in Russia. John... Read Full Overview

John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World is the single best surviving account of the November 1918 Russian Revolution, and a glimpse of the dramatic events of a century ago that continue to reverberate to the present day. As Reed himself put it, "This book is a slice of intensified... Read Full Overview

A new edition of John Reed's classic eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution, 100 years since its first publication.

"Ten Days That Shook the World" is American journalist and socialist John Reed's first-hand account of the Russian October Revolution of 1917. First published in 1919, Reed died soon after the book was released and was buried at the Kremlin in Moscow, one of only three Americans... Read Full Overview

John Reed, escritor revolucionario y cronista insuperable, fue testigo directo de uno de los acontecimientos hist?ricos de mayor relevancia del siglo xx, la Revoluci?n rusa de 1917. Diez d?as que estremecieron al mundo es su extraordinario y conmovedor testimonio de la Revoluci?n... Read Full Overview

"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... Read Full Overview

Ten Days That Shook the World (1919) is a book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders closely during his time in Russia. John Reed... Read Full Overview

"Ten Days That Shook the World" is American journalist and socialist John Reed's first-hand account of the Russian October Revolution of 1917. While it is intended as an impartial and unbiased historical account, by Reed's own admission, "in the struggle his] sympathies were... Read Full Overview

An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in March 2017 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... Read Full Overview

"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... Read Full Overview

This book is the basis for the Academy Award winning 1981 film "Reds". Reed's classic eyewitness account captures the opening days of the Russian Revolution. His passionately involved narrative describes the fall of the provisional government, the assault on the Winter Palace,... Read Full Overview