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Ten Days that Shook the World

John Reed

What does a revolution look like from the street, as a weak government loses its people and power changes hands in days?

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Author
John Reed

Why read it

  • You will see why the comfortable and the poor can honestly disagree about whether a revolution is winding down or speeding up
  • You will learn how a government loses power, through each act that angers people and each refusal to act that earns contempt
  • You will understand what workers, soldiers and peasants were demanding: land, factories and an end to the war

Who it is for

  • Someone who prefers eyewitness reporting to textbook summaries
  • A leader curious how a weak government loses its grip
  • A student of politics comparing what elites and crowds believed

Contents

  1. Ten Days That Shook the World
  2. 2: The Coming Storm
  3. 3: On the Eve
  4. 4: The Fall of the Provisional Government
  5. 5: Plunging Ahead
  6. 6: The Committee for Salvation
  7. 7: The Revolutionary Front
  8. 8: Counter-Revolution
  9. 9: Victory
  10. 10: Moscow
  11. 11: The Conquest of Power
  12. 12: The Peasants’ Congress

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