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 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
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