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.
