Ten Days That Shook the World

Ten Days That Shook the World: Unabridged Revised and Edited Version by Kimba Books Ltd This book is an unabridged, revised, and edited edition. It is not a scanned or converted version; rather, it is a reviewed and corrected edition free of typographical flaws, which are frequently found in many historic literary works as a consequence of issues with the physical book which was used to create modern editions. About John Reed:John "Jack" Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist. Reed first gained prominence as a war correspondent during the Mexican Revolution (for Metropolitan magazine) and World War I (for the magazine The Masses). He is best known for his coverage of the October Revolution in Petrograd, Russia, which he wrote about in his 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the World. Reed supported the Soviet takeover of Russia, even briefly taking up arms to join the Red Guards in 1918. He hoped for a similar Communist revolution in the United States, and co-founded the short-lived Communist Labor Party of America in 1919. Ten Days That Shook the World:John Reed was on an assignment for The Masses, a magazine of socialist politics, when he was reporting on the Russian Revolution. Although Reed stated that he had "tried to see events with the eye of a conscientious reporter, interested in setting down the truth"during the time of the event, he stated in the preface that "in the struggle my sympathies were not neutral"(since the book primarily shares the perspective of the Russian working class). This title is not a scanned or converted version; rather, it is a reviewed and corrected edition free of typographical flaws, which are frequently found in many historic literary works as a consequence of issues with the physical book that were used to create modern editions.