Ten days that shook the world
Publication Information
New York : International Publishers, [2021]
Physical Description
lxvi, 395 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary
"Ten Days That Shook the World is a 1919 book on the October Revolution in Russia by American journalist and socialist activist John Reed. Written in just two to three weeks, the book draws from Reed's fresh, intense experience in Russia during the revolution, which took place in 1917. Reed gives historical background on the Bolshevik political leaders, whom he studied closely while living in Russia. He died less than a year after the book was published, and was exalted by the Russian government, which gave him an honorary gravesite at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Intensely emotional and vivid, the book is almost fiction-like in its larger-than-life, though scrupulously researched and historically correct, retelling of the October Revolution."--Goodreads.
Notes
"John Reed's classic"--Cover.
First published: 1919.