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Ten Days that Shook the World

Name: Ten Days that Shook the World
Author: John Reed
ISBN: 9780141442129

by John Reed, A. J. P. Taylor (Introduction), Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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Overview

The basis for the Academy Awardwinning 1981 film Reds, Reed's classic eyewitness account captures the opening days of the Russian Revolution. His passionately involved narrative describes the fall of the provisional government, the assault on the Winter Palace, Lenin's seizure of power, and other tumultuous events. "Brilliant and entertaining." — The New York Times Book Review. 16 illustrations.

Synopsis

Reed's passionately involved narrative captures the opening days of the Russian Revolution, the fall of the provisional government, the assault on the Winter Palace, Lenin's seizure of power, and other tumultuous events.

About the Author, John Reed

John Reed (1887-1920), a journalist and poet-adventurer who became the hero of a generation of radical intellectuals, is buried with other Bolshevik luminaries beside the Kremlin wall.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin né Ulyanov (1870-1924) became the first head of the Soviet Union and the primary theorist of his own variant of Marxism.
A. J. P. Taylor (1906-1990) was a renowned English historian and author.