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.