Ten Days That Shook the World
An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in March 2017 An 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. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and of the chance comments of bystanders, and set against an idealized backdro…
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Weitere Autoren: Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (Solist) / Taylor, A. J. P. (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-14-144212-9
- EAN: 9780141442129
- Produktnummer: 2858011
- Verlag: Penguin Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 351 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B13.2 cm x D2.3 cm 268 g
- Gewicht: 268
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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John Reed (1887-1920) American journalist and poet-adventurer whose colorful life as a revolutionary writer ended in Russia but made him the hero of a generation of radical intellectuals. Reed became a close friend of V.I. Lenin and was an eyewitness to the 1917 October revolution. He recorded this historical event in his best-known book TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD (1920). Reed is buried with other Bolshevik heroes beside the Kremlin wall.
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