Ten Days That Shook the World

Synopsis

An impassioned firsthand account of the russian revolutionan 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 reed's extraordinary record of that event. Writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping account of the events in petrograd in november 1917, when lenin and the bolsheviks finally seized power.