A visiting professor is told Russia’s Revolution is slowing down. Then he travels through factory towns and peasant communities—and finds it speeding up. In Petrograd in the autumn of 1917, the old order is gone, but the promises of Peace, Land, and workers’ control remain unfulfilled. In this firsthand account, American journalist John Reed follows the widening gulf between the Provisional Government and the workers, soldiers, and peasants who demand change now—not after another delay. As strikes, desertions, and land seizures spread, the Bolsheviks gather support and the country moves toward a crisis no compromise seems able to contain. Who will decide what comes next: the government, or the people pressing it to act? With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.
