Read Chapter IX "Victory" of
John Reed (18871920). Ten Days That Shook the World.
1922.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922; New York: bartleby.com,
2000
This will give you an eye witness view of the Russian revolution. The following is some background information about the author.
"John Reed 18871920, American journalist and radical leader, b. Portland, Oregon. The articles that he wrote from Mexico about Pancho Villa established his reputation as a journalist and a radical. He served as a reporter in Europe in World War I and was in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) when the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917; his book, Ten Days That Shook the World (1919), is considered the best eyewitness account of the revolution. He died in Moscow of typhus and was buried at the Kremlin."-from Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. (2000)
"Unreservedly do I recommend it to the workers of the
world."
-"Introduction" to Ten Days, V.I. Lenin
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