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This stunning eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution takes its readers into the heart of the extraordinary events that took place in St. Petersburg during the late fall of 1917. This new edition with a new introduction has been published in conjunction with the centenary of the Revolution. American journalist John Reed, on assignment for the New York communist newspaper The Mass, provides an interesting account of the events that led to Lenin and the Bolsheviks seizing power. Reid's narrative bursts with captivating verve, drawing on his days and nights spent roaming city streets and visiting meeting rooms, in a city ablaze with revolutionary fervor. His reports are full of urgent information gleaned from pamphlets, newspapers and posters, and from his conversations with soldiers, peasants and workers who flocked to the city to join the ranks of the rebellion that would storm the Tsar's Winter Palace and declare the establishment of a revolutionary government. Lenin, who became a close friend of Reid's, wrote of Ten Days That Shook the World: "I highly recommend it to the workers of the world. It is a book which I hope will be printed in millions and translated into all languages." With an original and comprehensive introduction by renowned economist David Leibman, this new edition of the book, which inspired Sergei Eisenstein's October and Warren Beatty's Reds, introduces a new audience to the turbulent days of revolution that changed the course of history for the next century.