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Paperback, [EAN: 9781483988184], Createspace, Createspace, Book, [PU: Createspace], Createspace, The situation in St. Petersburg was growing more and more tense. The People's Revolution … Plus…

Paperback, [EAN: 9781483988184], Createspace, Createspace, Book, [PU: Createspace], Createspace, The situation in St. Petersburg was growing more and more tense. The People's Revolution had begun by overthrowing the corrupt Tsarist regime in March 1917, but the workers and the peasants felt the revolution had much farther to go. Tired of fighting a war that meant little to them, the soldiers also grew restless: "When the land belongs to the peasants, and the factories to the workers, and the power to the Soviets, then we'll know we have something to fight for, and we'll fight for it!" Lenin pressed the Bolsheviks to seize power. On the night of October 24, an organized mass of workers, soldiers, peasants, and sailors stormed the Winter Palace. On the following day, at the opening of the second Congress of Soviets, Trotsky announced the overthrow of the provisional government. Counterrevolutionary forces marched on the capital, but the Revolutionary Army triumphed. After all, "[t]his was their battle, for their world; the officers in command were elected by them. For the moment that incoherent multiple will was one will." In Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed tells the story of Red October and the Russian revolution from a unique, firsthand perspective. Reed, an American journalist, was on assignment in Russia for The Masses--then the principal radical journal in the United States--and spent his days walking the streets, reading and collecting handbills, newspapers, and posters, and talking to people. As a result, Ten Days crackles with energetic immediacy. At its best moments it reads like a novel: Reed recounts conversations and arguments, details political machinations, and speculates on personal motives. Though this is no mere piece of propaganda, Reed's enthusiasm for the revolution infuses the text (some readers may be put off by Reed's florid prose), casting each counterrevolutionary act in a negative light. Helpful notes flesh out the background for those less familiar with the preceding events and render this a solid work of history. Ten Days That Shook the World is a stirring account of a stirring event. --Sunny Delaney, 928670, Revolutionary, 928664, Historical Study, 927728, History, 927726, Subjects, 916520, Books<

2013, ISBN: 9781483988184

Ten Days that Shook the World is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many… Plus…

Ten Days that Shook the World is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders, especially Grigory Zinoviev and Karl Radek, closely during his time in Russia. John Reed died in 1920, shortly after the book was finished, and he is one of the few Americans buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow, a site normally reserved only for the most prominent..., Ten Days that Shook the World is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders, especially Grigory Zinoviev and Karl Radek, closely during his time in Russia. John Reed died in 1920, shortly after the book was finished, and he is one of the few Americans buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow, a site normally reserved only for the most prominent Soviet leaders. Although Reed states that he had "tried to see events with the eye of a conscientious reporter, interested in setting down the truth"[1] during the time of the event, he stated in the preface that "in the struggle my sympathies were not neutral" (since the book leans towards the Bolsheviks and their viewpoints).Taal: Engels; Afmetingen: 13x229x152 mm; Gewicht: 322,00 gram; Verschijningsdatum: maart 2013; ISBN10: 148398818X; ISBN13: 9781483988184; , Engelstalig | Paperback | 2013, Geschiedenis & Politiek, Geschiedenis, Createspace<

2013, ISBN: 148398818X

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2013, ISBN: 9781483988184

Taal: Engels; Afmetingen: 13x229x152 mm; Gewicht: 322,00 gram; Verschijningsdatum: maart 2013; ISBN10: 148398818X; ISBN13: 9781483988184; , Engelstalig | Paperback | 2013, Meer geschiede… Plus…

Taal: Engels; Afmetingen: 13x229x152 mm; Gewicht: 322,00 gram; Verschijningsdatum: maart 2013; ISBN10: 148398818X; ISBN13: 9781483988184; , Engelstalig | Paperback | 2013, Meer geschiedenis en politiek, Revolutie, Createspace<

ISBN: 9781483988184

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