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  • Published: 19 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141442129
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.00

Ten Days That Shook the World




The first-person chronicle of a lengendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution

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.

  • Published: 19 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141442129
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.00

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About the author

John Reed

John Reed is the author of the novels A Still Small Voice (Delta, 2001), Snowball’s Chance (Roof Books, 2002), and The Whole (MTV Press, 2005), as well as a play adapted from the works of William Shakespeare, All the World’s A Grave (Plume, 2008).

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