Ten Days That Shook the World

Ten Days That Shook the World is a first-person chronicle, a rich and informative account by an eyewitness of one of the greatest events of the twentieth century, the October Revolution of 1917. John Reed vividly conveys the mood of the masses, capturing the spirit of those days. His book is a boundless sea of faces, events, cases, documents, but it is also the perspective of a person who is romantically and sincerely captivated by the ideas of communism, identifying himself completely with the revolution — he described what he saw and felt himself.