Ten Days That Shook the World Author:John Reed The Ten Days That Shook the World unrolled in November, 1917, when the Bosheviks, in a second revolution, seized power from the government that had succeeded the Czar. They were observed with enthusiasm by a yound American journalist, who has already written one book on Pancho Villa's Mexico, another on the Eastern Front, and who has just arriv... more »ed in Russia to report on the vast upheavals shaking that country. He has already become a radical in an America dominated by progressive movements; in Russia he became a Communist, and, on his return to America, wrote this eyewitness account of the Bolshevik Revolution.
The present edition of this work has a new introduction by Bertram D. Wolfe, author of Three Who Made a Revolution, which relates this important work to our current knowledge of the Russian Revolution.« less