Ten days that shook the world - John Reed and Ian Kershaw biography
Ten days that shook the world is not only a living testimony, recounted the events in the heat of the day in Petrograd of the Russian Revolution of 1917, as tambéma work that inaugurated the big story in modern journalism. The University of New York has chosen this book as one of the ten best works of journalism of the century. Reed lived and talked with great leaders Lenin and Trotsky, and accompanied assemblies and street demonstrations that marked the history of mankind. "Jack" Reed set the romantic image of the reporter, who takes chances and defending socially just causes. He covered the major events of his time - the Russian Revolution, the Mexican Revolution and World War. Their roofs were the inspiration for two classic films directed by Sergei Eisenstein, October (1927) and Viva Mexico! (1931). In 1981, Warren Beatty directed the film Reds in which she plays Reed. This edition features an appendix with notes and texts of pamphlets, decrees, orders and resolutions of the main characters and groups linked to the revolution, besides Introduction signed hair historian AJP Taylor.
"JAMA nobody imagined that the Bolsheviks were able to stay more than three days in power - the ship is, perhaps, Lenin, Trotsky, the Petrograd workers and soldiers naive ... "
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