Ten Days That Shook the World

No cover — John Reed: Ten Days That Shook the World (2009, The Floating Press)

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Published Feb. 7, 2009 by The Floating Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-77541-396-7
OCLC Number:: 496808965

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Ten Days that Shook the World is a first-hand account of Russia's October Revolution of 1917. Written in 1919 by the American journalist and socialist John Reed, it follows many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders of this time. Reed died the year after his book was finished and was buried in Moscow's Kremlin Wall Necropolis - one of the few Americans accorded this honor usually reserved for the Soviet's most prominent leaders.

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mononoaware@bookwyrm.social reviewed Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed

Awesome

4 stars

quite an objective and in-depth account of the greatest event in human history, in which the working masses for the first time (barring the short-lived episode of the Paris Commune) stormed the skies, entered the stage of world history and took their fate into their own hands, laying the groundwork for an end to the Great Slaughter of World War I. Great for debunking all the pile of lies and distortions that have been amassed around the Bolshevik Revolution over the past century. Also shows that it was Trotsky, not Stalin that played the pivotal role in the events of October. Though John Reed's writing style feels a little bit too tangential at times.