Ten Days That Shook the World (Modern Library of the World's Best Books, #215) (Dover Value Editions)

by John Reed

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Introduction), A. J. P. Taylor (Introduction), Professor A J P Taylor (Introduction), and Vladimir Lenin (Introduction)

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Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed’s eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record 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 the chance comments of bystanders, set against an idealized backcloth of the proletariat, soldiers, sailors, and peasants uniting to throw off oppression, Reed’s account is the product of passionate involvement and remains an unsurpassed classic of reporting.

  • ISBN10 0141442123
  • ISBN13 9780141442129
  • Publish Date 26 April 2007 (first published 1 September 1960)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics