"This book is a slice of intensified history?history as I saw it." So begins
John Reed's first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Much
anticipated when it was published in 1919, Reed's narrative remains as riveting
today as when the events he describes were still reverberating throughout the
world.
Reed was hardly a disinterested observer, and his involvement in the Communist
labor movement lends urgency and passion to his classic account. He vividly
describes events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Vladimir Lenin and the
Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace and seized the reins of power.
Despite Reed's personal leanings, which he made no attempt to hide,