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'''''Ten Days That Shook the World''''' is [[John Reed]]'s eyewitness account of the [[Russian Revolution]]. As a contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917 (modern calendar) when [[Lenin]] and the [[Bolsheviks]] finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and the chance comments of bystanders, set against a backcloth of [[proletariat]], soldiers, sailors and [[peasants]] uniting to throw off the chains of oppression, Reed's account is the product of passionate involvement and remains an unsurpassed classic of reporting.

It was published in 1919 in the [[United States of America]] and by the [[Communist Party of Great Britain]] in 1926.
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