"One hundred years ago, the Russian Revolution turned the world upside down. Ordinary people took over their factories, farms, regiments, and schools, and set out to build a new society. Selections from testimonials, debates, documents, and memoirs fill this new reader, bringing…
by Reed, John, Berlin, Isaiah, Birkerts, Sven, Als, Hilton, Rushdy, Ashraf H. A., Gladwell, Malcolm, Daum, Meghan, Solnit, Rebecca, Cronin, Justin, Atleework, Kendra, Angell, Roger, Jacobson, Mark, Kreider, Tim, Sedaris, David, Doerr, Anthony, Strayed, Cheryl, Briere, Tiffany, Jefferson, Margo, Kennicott, Philip, Lebo, Kate, Smith, Zadie, Sundberg, Kelly
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2014 which were originally published in American periodicals.
John Reed conveys, with the immediacy of cinema, the impression of a whole nation in ferment and disintegration. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives us a record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the…
An account of the Russian Revolution in 1917 when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power - With an introduction by A.J.P. Taylor.
"This is a new edition, annotated and with an introduction, of American journalist John Reed's classic eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution of 1917"--Provided by publisher