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Ten Days That Shook the World

In 1917John Reed, a journalist and socialist, witnessed first-hand the 1917 Russian October Revolution, in which the Bolsheviks seized power and began forming the Soviet Union.Ten Days that Shook the Worldis his account of the revolution, including on-the-ground descriptions of the days up to those portentous events. The book received a mixed reception. Some reviewers found it a powerful account of the events, one of the few available in English. Others...

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Introduction

With the greatest interest and with never slackening attention I read John Reed’s book, Ten Days That Shook the World. Unreservedly do I recommend it to the workers of the world. Here is a book which ...

Ten Days That Shook the World

CHAPTERS

Introduction

Preface

Notes And Explanations

Political Parties

Parliamentary Procedure

Popular Organisations

Central Committees

Other Organisations

Chronology And Spelling

Sources

I - Background

II - The Coming Storm

III - On the Eve

IV - The Fall of the Provisional Government

V - Plunging Ahead

VI - The Committee for Salvation

VII - The Revolutionary Front

VIII - Counterrevolution

IX - Victory

X - Moscow

XI - The Conquest of PowerA11.1

XII - The Peasants’ Congress

2 - Wages and Cost of Living Before and During the Revolution

Appendix 1 1

2 - Wages and Cost of Living Before and During the Revolution

3 - The Socialist Ministers

4 - September Municipal Elections in Moscow

5 - Growing Arrogance of the Reactionaries

2 - Democratic Conference

Appendix 2 1

2 - Democratic Conference

3 - The Function of the Soviets Is Ended

4 - Trotsky’s Speech at the Council of the Russian Republic

5 - The Nakaz to Skobeliev

6 - Peace at Russia’s Expense

7 - Russian Soldiers in France

8 - Terestchenko’s Speech (Resumé)

9 - The British Fleet (etc.)

10 - Appeals Against Insurrection

11 - Lenin’s “Letter to the Comrades”

12 - Miliukov’s Speech (Resumé)

13 - Interview with Kerensky

1 - Resolution of the Factory-Shop Committees

1 - Resolution of the Factory-Shop Committees

2 - The Bourgeois Press on the Bolsheviki

3 - Moderate Socialist Press on the Bolsheviki

4 - “Yedinstvo”

5 - Were the Bolsheviki Conspirators?

6 - Appeal Against Insurrection

7 - Events of the Night, November 6th

1 - Events of November 7th

1 - Events of November 7th

2 - Kerensky in Flight

3 - Looting of the Winter Palace

4 - Rape of the Women’s Battalion

1 - Appeals and Proclamations

1 - Appeals and Proclamations

2 - Protest of the Municipal Duma

3 - Land Decree⁠—Peasants’ Nakaz

4 - The Land and Deserters

5 - The Council of People’s Commissars

1 - Appeals and Denunciations

1 - Appeals and Denunciations

1 - Two Decrees

1 - Two Decrees

2 - The Strike Fund

1 - Kerensky’s Advance

1 - Kerensky’s Advance

2 - Proclamations of the Military Revolutionary Committee

3 - Acts of the Council of People’s Commissars

4 - The Liquor Problem

5 - Order No. 2

1 - Military Revolutionary Committee. Bulletin No. 2

1 - Military Revolutionary Committee. Bulletin No. 2

2 - Events of the 13th in Petrograd

3 - Truce. Krasnov’s Answer to the Committee for Salvation

4 - Events at Tsarskoye Selo

5 - Appeal of the Soviet Government