Ten Days That Shook The World
Reed, John
£8.00
Ten Days That Shook The World
By John Reed
Published By Penguin Books, London, 1966. 1st ed thus.
Approx size: 18cm H x 10.5cm W (7” x 4 1/4”). 351pp. Includes: Introduction by Lenin, Chronology, Appendices, Notes & Explanations.
”Ten Days That Shook The World conveys, with the immediacy of cinema, the impression of a whole nation in ferment and disintegration. Reed’s eyewitness account of events in Leningrad in the November of 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power; his verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and chance comments by passers-by...
Time has overlaid many passages, not excluding Lenin’s glowing introduction to the book, with a layer of irony. Nevertheless Reed’s paean for the Russian Revolution, written in the first fine flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, holds its own as a classic of reporting.”
Book Condition: Used. Very Good. A well looked after book with little evidence of previous ownership. All pages present and no tears. A good edition.
Overall Condition: Very Good.
Politics/Russia/Revolution/ History/Journalism