Ten Days That Shook the World (Famine Relief Edition)

xix, 351 pp. Blue cloth, navy blue titles. This edition was originally printed as a fundraising effort to help feed starving Russian citizens. It is the first to include an introduction by Nikolai Lenin (Vladimir Illitch Ulianov) in which he states he 'should like to see [it] published in millions of copies and translated into all languages.' Also included on the verso of the front endpaper is a statement from John Reed's wife about the purpose of this edition, for which half the proceeds were donated to famine relief. "Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders, especially Grigory Zinoviev and Karl Radek, closely during his time in Russia. John Reed died in 1920 shortly after the book was finished, and he is one of the few Americans buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow, a site normally reserved only for the most prominent Soviet leaders."