'Ten Days that Shook the World' by John Reed is a first-person account of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. Reed, an American journalist, provides a unique perspective on the events unfolding in Russia during that time. The book captures the tension and excitement of the revolution, detailing the overthrow of the Tsarist regime, the storming of the Winter Palace, and the rise of the Bolsheviks to power. Reed's writing style is described as energetic and immediate, almost reading like a novel, as he recounts conversations, political machinations, and personal motives with vivid prose.
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"This book is a slice of intensified historyhistory as I saw it." So begins John Reed's first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Much anticipated when it was published in 1919, Reed's narrative remains as riveting today as when the events he describes were still reverberating throughout the world.
Reed was hardly a disinterested observer, and his involvement in the Communist labor movement lends urgency and passion to his classic account. He vividly describes events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace and seized the reins of power.
Despite Reed's personal leanings, which he made no attempt to hide, the book garnered praise from luminaries across the political spectrum. George F. Kennan, the American diplomat, and father of the policy of Soviet containment, said that Reed's account of the events of that time rises above every other contemporary record for its literary power, its penetration, its command of detail. It will be remembered when all others are forgotten."
Reed was committed to telling the story of the Russian revolution as truthfully as possible. That the book was banned by Russian premier Josef Stalin is a testament to the author's success in carrying out his mission. One hundred years after Russia and the world trembled, Ten Days that Shook the World brings alive the momentous events of 1917.
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About the Author:
John Reed is the author of the novels A Still Small Voice, The Whole, Snowball's Chance, All The World's A Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare, Tales of Woe, and Free Boat: Collected Lies and Love Poems. He is a two-term member of…
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