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[edit] Introduction

Include as 2nd paragraph:

Reed considered Ten Days that Shook the World "the greatest story of my life and one of the greatest in the world." [reference to primary source; Jack Reed's letter to Lincoln Steffens] It is a belief that is backed up by many, as the book was what solidified John Reed's lasting reputation.[+ references]

  • See Rosenstone's biography

[edit] Critical response

Ten Days that Shook the World was, for the most part, more favorably received than either of his two books, Insurgent Mexico and The War in Eastern Europe. This was rather ironic, considering the hostile atmsophere against radicals and Bolshevism in the United States at that time. Theodore Draper, an American historian and

[edit] Sources to read and write about

  • Thedore Draper, Roots of American Communism, pp. 115
  • Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 2:684
  • Robert Daniels, Red October, pp. 251
  • A. J. P. Taylor, Introduction to Ten Days that Shook the World
  • New York Times, 27 April 1919
  • "Ten Days that Shook the World", New Republic, 21 May 1919, pp. 158
  • Howard Sterns, "The Unending Revolution", pp. 301-2
    • also mention how reviewers "appreciated Reed's frankness in announcing his prejudices"
  • Athenaeum, 15 August 1919, pp. 768