Covers the October Revolution in Russia 1917, which Reed
experienced first-hand, and follows many of the prominent
Bolshevik leaders, especially Zinoviev and Karl Radek. Banned by
Stalin. THIS book is a slice of intensified history—history as I
saw it. It does not pretend to be anything but a detailed
account of the November Revolution, when the Bolsheviki, at the
head of the workers and soldiers, seized the state power of
Russia and placed it in the hands of the Soviets. Naturally most
of it deals with “Red Petrograd,” the capital and heart of the
insurrection. But the reader must realize that what took place
in Petrograd was almost exactly duplicated, with greater or
lesser intensity, at different intervals of time, all over
Russia. In this book, the first of several which I am writing, I
must confine myself to a chronicle of those events which I
myself observed and experienced, and those supported by reliable
evidence; preceded by two chapters briefly outlining the
background and causes of the November Rev