Ten Days That Shook the World
by John Reed
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About This Book
"This book is a slice of intensified history—history 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 rei...
Chapters (34)
- Ten Days That Shook the World
- Preface
- Notes and Explanations
- Political Parties
- Parliamentary Procedure
- Popular Organisations
- Central Committees
- Other Organisations
- Chronology and Spelling
- Sources
- Chapter I Background
- Chapter II The Coming Storm
- Chapter III On the Eve
- Chapter IV The Fall of the Provisional Government
- Chapter V Plunging Ahead
- Chapter VI The Committee for Salvation
- Chapter VII The Revolutionary Front
- Chapter VIII Counter-Revolution
- Chapter IX Victory
- Chapter X Moscow
- Chapter XI The Conquest of Power (See App. XI, Sect. 1)
- Chapter XII The Peasants’ Congress
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER I
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER II
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER III
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER IV
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER V
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VI
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VII
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VIII
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER IX
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER X
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XI
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XII
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