Ten Days That Shook the World

Authors: John Reed, William Benton Whisenhunt & William Benton Whisenhunt

Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe) | Russia | European history | Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions

Published on 10^th March 2026 by Anthem Press in the United Kingdom as part of the 'Anthem Americans in Revolutionary Russia' series.

Hardback | 200 pages
229mm x 153mm | 454g

Of all the books by American witnesses of the Russian Revolution, John Reed’s Ten Days That Shook the World was and still is the best known. Even thoughtReed arrived in Russia in September 1917 and left in the spring of 1918, his enthusiastic account focuses on the ten key days of the revolution itself, brining to life the sights, sounds, and key people who were so instrumental in this critical event. Reed, officially a journalist, shed his objectivity and supplorted the Boshevik cause, and this book was the key forum in which he made his cause. In the end, the book has survived, and even thrived, as a primary source on the revolution, even thought Reed died in 1920.