Ten Days That Shook the World (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 215)

xxiv, 371 pp. Foreword by Vladimir I. Lenin, introduction by Granville Hicks. "Ten Days That Shook the World" is American journalist and socialist John Reed's first-hand account of the Russian October Revolution of 1917. While it is intended as an impartial and unbiased historical account, by Reed's own admission, "in the struggle [his] sympathies were not neutral". An important historical document of an event that would shape the political landscape for most of the 20th century, "Ten Days That Shook the World" is a must read for those interested in the socialistic movement and how it shaped Russian history.