Binding: Paperback
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.
Title: Ten Days That Shook The World
Author(s): Reed John
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141442129
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 9/1/2007
Category: Revolutionary Groups & Movements