Ten Days That Shook the World

Ten Days That Shook the World is American journalist John Reed's account of the Russian Revolution from November 7th through November 18th. Writing for an American socialist newspaper at the time, Reed experienced the events of the revolution first-hand, and the book conveys all the fervor, suspense and sheer raucousness of those fateful days. This edition includes the introduction written by Vladimir Lenin in the 1922 prining.

John Silas Jack Reed (1887-1920) was an American journalist, poet, and socialist activist, best remembered for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days That Shook the World. He was married to writer and feminist Louise Bryant. Reed died in Russia in 1920 and is one of only three Americans buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Reed's short life as a revolutionary writer and activist made him the hero of a generation of radical intellectuals.