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Ten Days that Shook the World (Vintage 1967)
Ten Days that Shook the World - Vintage 1967 Author:John Reed The monumental eyewitness account of the Bolshevik uprising and the birth of the Russian Communist State by John Reed an American who observed the violent upheaval at firsthand - the only American who is buried in the Kremlin. — John Reed re-creates the swift, tumultuous events of that incredible November, 1917: the convening of the Congress of t... more »he Soviets, the capture of the Winter Palace, carnage at the Kremlin wall, the Land decree, the Peasants Congress. He dramatically portrays the clash of men and ideas that changed the course of world history: Kerensky, the ineffectual ruler who headed the only liberal bourgeois government Russia has ever known - who watched helplessly as his short-lived regime gave way to the Bolshevik forces... the brilliant theoretician Trotsky and the political genius Lenin, who fired a revolution and launched a government that has endured to this day.« less