Ten Days That Shook the World
$25.58
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
19 July 2007
Summary
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 backdrop of the proletariat, soldiers, sailors, and pea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141442129 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141442123 |
| Author: | John Reed, Professor A.J.P. Taylor, Vladimir Lenin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 19 July 2007 |
| Weight: | 269g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
About The Author
John Reed
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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