Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed

Ten Days That Shook the World

John Reed

Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · August 28, 2007

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Who it’s for
A passionate eyewitness account brings revolutionary upheaval into the room through speeches and bystanders’ remarks.
Themes
Russian Revolution, Firsthand historical reporting, Bolshevik seizure of power
Genres
Revolutionary History, Soviet-Era Russia, Communism & Socialism

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About this book

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.

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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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

History Up Close

A passionate eyewitness account brings revolutionary upheaval into the room through speeches and bystanders’ remarks.

Come here for

  • Firsthand reporting from the 1917 Russian Revolution
  • Leaders’ speeches alongside chance comments from bystanders

Expect

  • A reporter deeply involved in the events he records
  • A fervent perspective on revolution, not a detached chronicle

Where it sits

Revolutionary History48%
Soviet-Era Russia44%
Communism & Socialism35%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Revolutionary History
  • Russian History
  • 20th-Century History
Authors
John Reed
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published
August 28, 2007
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Russian Revolution · Firsthand historical reporting · Bolshevik seizure of power
Reading lane
Revolutionary History