 | ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
by John Reed
|
ISBN: 0486452409 Dover Publications Price: $9.95 |
click here to see this book |
The basis for the Academy Award–winning 1981 film Reds, Reed's classic eyewitness account captures the opening days of the Russian Revolution. His passionately involved narrative describes the fall of the provisional government, the assault on the Winter Palace, Lenin's seizure of power, and other tumultuous events. "Brilliant and entertaining." — The New York Times Book Review. 16 illustrations.
Reprint of the Boni & Liveright, Inc., New York, 1919 edition.
Table of Contents for Ten Days that Shook the World
| Preface | |||||||
| Notes and Explanations | |||||||
| Chapter I. Background | |||||||
| Chapter II. The Coming Storm | |||||||
| Chapter III. On the Eve | |||||||
| Chapter IV. The Fall of the Provisional Government | |||||||
| Chapter V. Plunging Ahead | |||||||
| Chapter VI. The Committee for Salvation | |||||||
| Chapter VII. The Revolutionary Front | |||||||
| Chapter VIII. Counter-Revolution | |||||||
| Chapter IX. Victory | |||||||
| Chapter X. Moscow | |||||||
| Chapter XI. The Conquest of Power | |||||||
| Chapter XII. The Peasants' Congress | |||||||
| Appendices |