John Reed's extraordinary eyewitness account of the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917 — one of the most important political events of the twentieth century. An American journalist present in Petrograd during the tumultuous weeks, Reed captures the chaos, passion and energy of the revolutionary seizure of power with vivid immediacy: the street fights, the factory committees, the great debates that shaped a new world. Published in 1919, Ten Days That Shook the World remains an indispensable primary source and a classic of revolutionary literature.