Petrograd, autumn 1917. The empire is starving, the trenches are bleeding, and the capital sways between a crumbling provisional government and the rising cry of the soviets. Into this cauldron walks an American journalist with a notebook and a hunger to watch history being made. Over ten extraordinary days, John Reed witnesses the dream of revolution turned to reality: nights ringing with speeches, the sailors of Kronstadt massing in the shadows, the Aurora's signal gun booming across the Neva, and the Winter Palace falling corridor by corridor. Here is the storming of the palace, the birth of the Council of People's Commissars, and the decrees promising peace and land to a shattered people — told with the immediacy of a reporter who was there and the sweep of an epic. Faithful to the events it records and refreshed for today's readers, this remains the classic account of October 1917. Part of Timeless Classics.
