Ten Days that Shook the World (book)

Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed, about the October Revolution in Russia 1917 which Reed experienced first-hand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders, especially Zinoviev and Karl Radek, closely during his time in Russia, and there is no denying that the book sides with the Communists and their standpoints.

Preface by Lenin

Ten Days that Shook the World has a short preface written by Lenin himself:

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: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 I should like to see published in millions of copies and translated into all languages. It gives a truthful and most vivid exposition of the events so significant to the comprehension of what really is the Proletarian Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. These problems are widely discussed, but before one can accept or reject these ideas, he must understand the full significance of his decision. John Reed's book will undoubtedly help to clear this question, which is the fundamental problem of the international labor movement.

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: N. LENIN.

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:End of 1919.

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