Ten Days That Shook The World
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John Reed
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 Reeds extraordinary record of that event. 'It flashed upon me suddenly: they were going to shoot me!' This electrifying eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution, written by an American journalist in St Petersburg as the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, is an unsurpassed record of history in the making. 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.
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Author
John Reed
Pages
242
Publisher
Lulu.com
Published Date
2019-02
ISBN
0359345212 9780359345212
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"A friend recommended that I read this book and I'm glad I listened to his advice. But I'm not sure what I took away from "10 Days that Shook the World" other than a newfound respect for the contingency of history. For the most part, the book is a jumble of hundreds of Russian names and places, of confusion and bizarre situations. It certainly seems like between the violence and chaos in the streets, the shifting loyalties of the army and navy, the remnants of the old government and the many factions of new pretenders to power, the train and telegraph unions, the bankers and the bourgeois, Russia in 1917 was a total mess. It was not at all clear to me that the rise of Bolsheviks was in any way inevitable... but maybe that's my lack of Russian history and inability to keep names straight."
Max Nova