by John Reed · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140024333
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«Ten Days That Shook the World» is John Reed's journalistic chronicle of the Russian Revolution, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (368 pages).
John Reed narrates the Russian Revolution from Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, alternating speeches by leaders, comments from witnesses, and scenes of workers, soldiers, and sailors. He conveys the atmosphere of agitation and revolutionary enthusiasm. It is a classic of journalism and a historical document.
Work originally published in 1919; this Penguin Modern Classics edition is from 1977, in paperback and English text.
For those interested in contemporary history and Soviet Russia, and for those who know the movie Reds, inspired by John Reed's life.
John Reed is an American novelist. He is the author of four novels: A Still Small Voice (2000), Snowball's Chance (2002) with a preface by Alexander Cockburn, The Whole (2005), and All the World's a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare (2008). His fifth book, Tales of Woe (2010), is a collection of twenty-five stories, chronicling true stories of abject misery.
