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"This book is a slice of intensified history history as I saw it." So begins John Reed's first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Much anticipated when it was published in 1919, Reed's narrative remains as riveting today a
An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution An American journalist and revolutionary writer, John Reed became a close friend of Lenin and was an eyewitness to the 1917 revolution in Russia. Ten Days That Shook the World is Reeds extraordina
Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed. 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. THIS book is a slice of intensi
"...Villa was an outlaw for twenty-two years. When he was only a boy of sixteen, ... he killed a government official... that in itself would not have outlawed him long in Mexico, where human life is cheap; but once a refugee he committed the unpardon
"Insurgent Mexico" plunges readers into the heart of the Mexican Revolution. Written by John Reed, this firsthand account offers a vital historical perspective on the tumultuous years of insurgency. Explore the complexities of the conflict as Re
George Orwell's Animal Farm told a wry and sardonic fable of communism in a dystopic collective farm. Snowball's Chance parodies Orwell by firing a broadside at the casino economy and the culture of the good life. In a brilliantly conceived and ex
A stunningly vivid ground level account of the October Revolution. John Reed, an American reporter who sympathized with the Revolution, puts himself into all sorts of incredibly dangerous situations in order to get the story. This is journalism at its bes
"Ten Days That Shook the World is not only the best account of the Bolshevik revolution, it comes near to being the best account of any revolution."-A.J.P. Taylor, historian (1964) American journalist John Reed experienced firsthand the Bolshevi