Ten Days that Shook the World was written by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders, especially Grigory Zinoviev and Karl Radek, closely during his time in Russia.
John Reed died in 1920, shortly after the book was finished, and he is one of the few Americans buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow, a site normally reserved only for the most prominent Soviet leaders.
Contents:
Introduction
Ten Days That Shook the World
by John Reed
Preface
Background
The Coming Storm
On the Eve
The Fall of the Provisional Government
Plunging Ahead
The Committee for Salvation
The Revolutionary Front
Counter-Revolution
Victory
Moscow
The Conquest of Power
The Peasants’ Congress
Appendix