John Reed

Best of Reed: Ten Days that Shook the World John Reed

A nice edition with 36 illustrations and photographs from the first edition.

Ten Days That Shook the World (1919) is a book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders closely during his time in Russia. John Reed was on an assignment for The Masses, a magazine of socialist politics. The book is a detailed account of the November Revolution, when the Bolsheviki, at the head of the workers and soldiers, seized the state power of Russia and placed it in the hands of the Soviets. John Reed died in 1920, shortly after the book was finished.