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. The authors politics are seriously misguided and he was blind to many of the realities of what was going on, but that is part of what makes the book. John reed died in 1920, shortly after the book was finished, and he is one of the few americans buried at the kremlin wall. Ten days that shook the world ten days that shook the world information about project gutenberg information about project gutenberg the legal small print the legal small print chapter 1.
This work is in the public domain in the united states because it was published before january 1, 1925. John reed 18871920 is best known as the author of ten days that shook the world and as champion of the communist movement in the united states. Ten days that shook the world by john reed, 9780241261170, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. Transcribed and marked up for the john reed internet archive, subarchive of the marxists internet archive. Ten days that shook the world john reed download free. Ten days that shook the world by john reed project gutenberg.
Ten days that shook the world quotes showing 115 of 15 so, with the crash of artillery, in the dark, with hatred, and fear, and reckless daring, new russia was being. Ten days that shook the world by john reed, 9780141442129, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. Ten days that shook the world by john reed goodreads. John reed s ten days that shook the world represents one of the 20th centurys greatest politicalliterary achievements, being one of the first book length eyewitness accounts of the great russian october revolution. Ten days that shook the world wikisource, the free. Pdf ten days that shook the world download full pdf. 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. Still, reed remains a writer almost systematically ignored by the literary critical establishment, even if alternately vilified and lionized by historians and by films like warren beattys reds. Global grey free pdf, epub, kindle ebook pages pdf. This book is available for free download in a number of formats including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. International publishers, 1919 communism 371 pages.
You can also read the full text online using our ereader. Idealistically, john reed agreed with lenin when he wrote ten days that shook the world. Ten days that shook the world by john reed free ebook. Ten days that shook the world, free pdf, ebook global grey. Ten days that shook the world marxists internet archive. Reed followed many of the prominent bolshevik leaders closely during his time in russia.
Reed was a socialist himself and was working for a socialist newspaper when he went to russia to report on. When reed wrote this book, the common and accepted spellings of. History, communism, revolution, 19171921, comunismo, nonfiction, politics. Ten days that shook the world by john reed full text free book. The book was penned by john reed, a socialist journalist from the united states, who was the subject of the warren beatty movie, reds. In 1922, his book was republished with an encomium from lenin himself. John reed, active in the left wing of the socialist party of america, went on to found the communist party, usa, along with james p. Eisenstein, grigori aleksandrov, boris agapow intertitles.
999 160 437 1237 1244 1322 300 118 49 567 1357 1567 314 1537 730 1209 548 810 1081 217 1146 777 379 910 1162 1033 368 194 143 1354