John Reed

Ten Days that Shook the World

John Reed's Ten Days That Shook the World

Transcribed from a 1919, 1st Edition, published by BONI & Liveright, Inc. for International Publishers, the publishing house of the Communist Party, USA, of which John Reed was a founding member.
Transcribed and marked up for the John Reed Internet Archive, sub-Archive of the Marxists Internet Archive, by David Walters in 2001.
Converted to eBook format for the Marxists Internet Archive by Pablo Stern in 2017.


Click here for a PDF file of all of the graphic and photo illustrations from the 1919 first edition, and second printing (published by Boni and Liveright of New York) of John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World (plus a bonus photo of John Reed that was not in the published book).


eBook

We have produced an ebook edition of Ten Days That Shook the World for the MIA eBook Collection for the centenary of the Russian Revolution. It is available in three formats: ePub format (open standard), mobi format (for Kindle) and pdf format.

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Online book
Table of Contents

Transcriber/Editors Comments
Introduction by V. I. Lenin
Author’s Preface
Notes and Explanations
Background
The Coming Storm
On the Eve
The Fall of the Provisional Government
Plunging Ahead
The Committee for Salvation
The Revolutionary Front
Counter-Revolution
Victory
Moscow
The Conquest of Power
The Peasant’s Congress


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