Ten days that shook the world

It was November 7, 1917, and the news was shocking: in Russia, a relatively small group of Bolsheviks had seized power, destroyed the Tsarist structures, and proclaimed the world's first proletarian workers' state. It was the birth of an experiment that would would leave its mark on the entire twentieth century. Many books have been written about the October Revolution. Some analytical, others narrative, some negative, others positive. But always written in retrospect.
There is one great exception in world literature: Ten Days That Shook the World, the compelling eyewitness account of the young American journalist John Reed, one of the few Westerners who experienced the revolution from the front row. In his report, Reed runs like a mad reporter from pillar to post, reports on Lenin's speeches about 'peace, bread and land', is in the front row at the storming of the Winter Palace and attends the occupation of factories. A book that brilliantly captures the chaos and enthusiasm of that period in words.
This reissue of Ten Days That Shook the World appears in a revised translation and is accompanied - for the first time in a Dutch-language edition of this book - by the original foreword by John Reed.
'From its opening page, Ten Days That Shook the World has a pace and tone that make it a remarkable book, in an era when the genre of reportage was still in its infancy. It remains one of the great texts of American journalism' - The Guardian