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Ten Days that Shook the World

By John Reed , Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , A. J. P. Taylor

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Year
2007
ISBN
9780141442129, 0141442123
Open Library ID
OL7359984M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
499 kB (511121 bytes)
Series
Penguin Classics
Pages
228\228
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution 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 reporting.

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