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Special pages :
Introduction to the book by John Silas Reed: Ten Days that Shook the World
Published: First published in Russian in 1923 in the book: Dzhon Rid, 10 dnei kotoriye potryasli mir, Moscow. Printed from the book text.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 36, page 519.
INTRODUCTION TO THE AMERICAN EDITION
With the greatest interest and with never slackening attention I read John Reedâs book, Ten Days That Shook the World. Unreservedly do I recommend it to the workers of the world. Here is a book which I should like to see published in millions of copies and translated into all languages. It gives a truthful and most vivid exposition of the events so significant to the comprehension of what really is the Proletarian Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. These problems are widely discussed, but before one can accept or reject these ideas, he must understand the full significance of his decision. John Reedâs book will undoubtedly help to clear this question, which is the fundamental problem of the international labor movement.
Nikolai Lenin