Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed

An unparalleled modern classic that has become an extraordinary document of our time.

John Reed recreates the swift, tumultuous events of that incredible November, 1917: the convening of the Congress of Soviets, the capture of the Winter Palace, carnage at the Kremlin wall, the Land decree, the Peasants Congress. He dramatically portrays the clash of men and ideas that changed the course of world history: Kerensky, the ineffectual ruler who headed the only liberal, bourgeois government Russia has ever known- who watched helplessly as his short-lived regime gave way to the Bolshevik forces... the brilliant theoretician Trotsky and the political genius Lenin, who fired a revolution and launched a government that has endured to this day. 

Signet 1967 first edition paperback in okay condition.