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Of all the books by American witnesses of the Russian Revolution, John Reed’s Ten Days That Shook the World was and still is the best known. Even thoughtReed arrived in Russia in September 1917 and left in the spring of 1918, his enthusiastic account focuses on the ten key days of the revolution itself, brining to life the sights, sounds, and key people who were so instrumental in this critical event. Reed, officially a journalist, shed his objectivity and supplorted the Boshevik cause, and this book was the key forum in which he made his cause. In the end, the book has survived, and even thrived, as a primary source on the revolution, even thought Reed died in 1920.
List of Illustrations; William Benton Whisenhunt Editor’s introduction; Editor’s note; Acknowledgments; Ten days that shoot the world; Preface; Notes and Explanations; Chapter I: Background; Chapter II: The Coming Storm; Chapter III: On the Eve; Chapter IV: The Fall of the Provisional Government; Chapter V: Plunging Ahead; Chapter VI: The Committee for Salvation; Chapter VII: The Revolutionary Front; Chapter VIII: Counter-revolution; Chapter IX: Victory; Chapter X: Moscow; Chapter XI: The Conquest of Power; Chapter XII: The Peasants’ Congress; Appendix; Index