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Ten days that Shook the World (Penguin Classics) |  | Author: John Reed
Creators: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, A. J. P. Taylor
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 186452
Media: Paperback
Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0141442123
Dewey Decimal Number: 947.0841
EAN: 9780141442129
ASIN: 0141442123
Publication Date: August 28, 2007
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Product 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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a note about the publishing history August 3, 2009
Caraculiambro (La Mancha and environs)
24 out of 25 found this review helpful
This is from George Orwell's proposed preface to "Animal Farm":
"At the death of John Reed, the author of 'Ten Days that Shook the World' -- a first-hand account of the early days of the Russian Revolution -- the copyright of the book passed into he hands of the British Communist Party, to whom I believe Reed had bequeathed it. Some years later the British Communists, having destroyed the original edition of the book as completely as they could, issued a garbled version from which they had eliminated mentions of Trotsky and also omitted the introduction written by Lenin."
Don't worry, though. This Penguin Classics edition is the version of Reed's book as originally issued, with all the Trotsky references and even Lenin's preface intact.
Ten Days That Shook The World April 19, 2009
David Dove (Fort Worth, TX)
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
A fascinating, dramatic historical document penned by John
Reed of the Russian Bolshevik revolution. Skip
the totally unnecessary revisionist introduction written by
A.J.P. Taylor in the Penquin paperback edition added
gratuitously in 1977 and enjoy this masterful work.
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