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| 1 | This etext was produced by Normal Wolcott. Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed Redactor's Note: This document uses the ISO 8891-1 Latin1 character set (Windows). The book is composed of text, footnotes, and appendices. The footnotes are included at the end of each chapter, while the Appendix No. and Section are referred to in the text in parentheses, the Appendices following the book text. |
| 2 | Liberal use is made of italics, and these have been indicated by bracketing italic text with the underscore character "_". Line length is 70-72 characters. A number of graphics occur in the text, these are referred to by number as "Graphic", etc. The Figures themselves are in a separate file. To facilitate conversion to a word-processing format, an attempt has been made to end each line with a space. |
| 3 | Graphics: There are 17 graphic figures in the text. These are indicated by a reference to the page number in the original book. These figures are available elsewhere (www.geocities.comnorm_90) where images of the pages involved are available in tiff or pdf format. These are-- page 33 46 49 96 104 166 184 205 224 227 251 254 276 279 281 287 354 Epilogue: The original book of this text had a number of newspaper clipings from the 1920's and 1930's included. |
| 4 | Most of these relate to the violent deaths encountered by those playing a part in this book. Others reveal that Eisenstein made a film of "Ten Days". Stalin, who is not mentioned in the book, suppressed the work. Louise Bryant, mentioned in the text, was married to John Reed, and after his death married William Bullitt in 1923 (divorced 1930) and died in Paris in 1936 at age 41. Mr. Bullitt was the first ambassador to Russia in the Roosevelt administration, and later to France. |
| 5 | Harvard University accepted a commissioned portrait of Reed in 1935 from a group of his classmates and hung it in Adams House, site of the boarding house where Reed lived at Harvard. Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed Table of Contents Preface. Notes and Explanations. Chapter 1. Background. Chapter 2. The Coming Storm. Chapter 3. On the Eve. Chapter 4. The Fall of the Provisional Government. |
| 6 | Chapter 5. Plunging Ahead. Chapter 6. The Committee for Salvation. Chapter 7. The Revolutionary Front. Chapter 8. Counter-Revolution. Chapter 9. Victory. Chapter 10. Moscow. Chapter 11. The Conquest of Power. Chapter 12. The Peasants' Congress. Appendices I - XII Preface THIS book is a slice of intensified history—history as I saw it. It does not pretend to be anything but a detailed account of the November Revolution, when the Bolsheviki, at the head of the workers and soldiers, seized the state power of Russia and placed it in the hands of the Soviets. |
| 7 | Naturally most of it deals with "Red Petrograd," the capital and heart of the insurrection. But the reader must realize that what took place in Petrograd was almost exactly duplicated, with greater or lesser intensity, at different intervals of time, all over Russia. In this book, the first of several which I am writing, I must confine myself to a chronicle of those events which I myself observed and experienced, and those supported by reliable evidence; preceded by two chapters briefly outlining the background and causes of the November Revolution. |
| 8 | I am aware that these two chapters make difficult reading, but they are essential to an understanding of what follows. Many questions will suggest themselves to the mind of the reader. What is Bolshevism? What kind of a governmental structure did the Bolsheviki set up? If the Bolsheviki championed the Constituent Assembly before the November Revolution, why did they disperse it by force of arms afterward? |
| 9 | And if the bourgeoisie opposed the Constituent Assembly until the danger of Bolshevism became apparent, why did they champion it afterward? These and many other questions cannot be answered here. In another volume, "Kornilov to Brest-Litovsk," I trace the course of the Revolution up to and including the German peace. There I explain the origin and functions of the Revolutionary organisations, the evolution of popular sentiment, the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, the structure of the Soviet state, and the course and outcome of the Brest- Litovsk negotiations.... |
| 10 | In considering the rise of the Bolsheviki it is necessary to understand that Russian economic life and the Russian army were not disorganised on November 7th, 1917, but many months before, as the logical result of a process which began as far back as 1915. The corrupt reactionaries in control of the Tsar's Court deliberately undertook to wreck Russia in order to make a separate peace with Germany. |
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