Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record 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 the chance comments of bystanders, set against an idealized backcloth of the proletariat, soldiers, sailors, and peasants 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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- ISBN: 9780141907512
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- ISBN: 9780141907512
- File size: 2130 KB
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- English
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- Lexile® Measure: 1140
- Text Difficulty: 8-9
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Library Journal
January 1, 2017
Originally publishing this work in 1919, journalist Reed traveled to Russia and experienced the October Revolution firsthand. A friend of Lenin's, Reed was hardly a nonpartisan observer, but this book is considered a classic. Warren Beatty's movie Reds (1981) depicts Reed's life.
Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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- Lexile® Measure:1140
- Text Difficulty:8-9
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