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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday March 13, 1919
“Ten Days That Shook the World,” John Reed on the Russian Revolution
From the Appeal to Reason of March 8, 1919:
John Reed’s Latest Book Tells
Truth About Russia
“Ten days that Shook the World,” by John Reed, is the newest, and it is safe to say, the best book written about the Russian Revolution. The Appeal Book Dept., the largest mail order book house in the world, has a large stock of this new book and is ready to fill orders at once.
Do you know what occurred during the ten days of the Bolshevik Revolution in Petrograd? John Reed was there, and he will tell you if you do not know.
What did Trotzky prophesy seven days before the insurrection? John Reed knows, and his book will tell you. What was Kerensky thinking just before his government fell? John Reed had the last interview with him, and the report of this important interview is given a prominent place in “Ten Days That Shook the World.” How did the Bolsheviki make up their minds to revolt? John Reed knows what went on in the secret Bolshevik Conference of October 23, 1917, and his book tells the story accurately.
This book is a moving picture of those thrilling days in Petrograd. It is a serious attempt to tell all the details about the bolshevik coup d’ etat. It will be used as an original source by historians of the great Russian Revolution.
Can you answer these questions?
What is Bolshevism? What is the history of the Bolsheviki? Who are the cadets? What was the role of the Russian bourgeoisie in the Revolution? 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? And if the bourgeoisie opposed the Constituent Assembly until the danger of Bolshevism became apparent, why did they champion it afterward?
If you cannot answer these questions about revolutionary Russia then “Ten Days That Shook the World” should be one of the books you should read immediately.
In his preface, John Reed writes:
No matter what one thinks of Bolshevism, it is undeniable that the Russian Revolution is one of the great events of human history, and the rise of the bolsheviki a phenomenon of world-wide importance. Just as historians search the records for the minutest details of the story of the Paris Commune, so they will want to know what happened in Petrograd in November, 1917, the spirit which animated the people, and how the leaders looked, talked and acted. It is with this in view that I have written this book. In the struggle my sympathies were not neutral. But in telling the story of those great days I have tried to see events with the eye of a conscientious reporter, interested in setting down the truth.
“Ten Days That Shook the World” contains 384 pages and is neatly bound in cloth. There are many portraits, maps and proclamations to illustrate the text. In all, this book is one that, for the present, is the most authoritative to come out of Russia.
The Appeal Book Dept., Girard, Kans., will fill orders for this epoch-making book at $2.25 per copy, including postage.
SPECIAL OFFER! We are going to give each person who orders this book the Appeal Pocket Series No. 5, which contains the official constitution of the Russian Soviet. This booklet is neatly bound, and is printed on fine book paper. The regular price of this booklet is 25 cents per copy. Of course, you have been wanting to know the basic structure of the Russian Bolsheviki. You have read a great deal of buncum in the press. Now is the time to read the original documents and the constitution could not be beaten as a beginner. Read that and then you will know what you are talking about when you are called upon to discuss Russia.
[Photograph of John Reed added.]
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SOURCES
Quote John Reed, Weak Gov Rebellious People, 10 Days Chp III, 1919
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=-voDAAAAYAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA42
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Mar 8, 1919
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67587283
IMAGE
John Reed, Liberator p44, March 1918
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1918/01/v1n01-mar-1918-liberator.pdf
See also:
Ten Days that Shook the World
-by John Reed
Boni and Liveright, NY, 1919
https://archive.org/details/tendaysthatshoo00reedgoog/page/n6
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044019024652;view=2up;seq=8
https://books.google.com/books?id=-voDAAAAYAAJ
The Russian Constitution
-adopted July 10, 1918
From The Nation of Jan 4, 1919
https://archive.org/details/1918SovietConstitution
John Reed Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/archive/reed/index.htm
Tag: John Reed
https://weneverforget.org/tag/john-reed/
John Reed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reed_(journalist)
https://spartacus-educational.com/Jreed.htm
The Last Days With John Reed
A Letter from Louise Bryant, Nov 14, 1920
From Liberator of Feb 1921
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bryant/works/1920/john-reed.htm
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