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Ten Days That Shook the World

John Reed

Nonfictionabout 15 hours of listening

Journalist John Reed gives a first-hand account of Russia’s 1917 October Revolution, which lead to the formation of the Soviet Union.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Introduction
  3. Preface
  4. Notes and Explanations
  5. Political Parties
  6. Parliamentary Procedure
  7. Popular Organisations
  8. Central Committees
  9. Other Organisations
  10. Chronology and Spelling
  11. Sources
  12. I: Background
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  1. II: The Coming Storm
  2. III: On the Eve
  3. IV: The Fall of the Provisional Government
  4. V: Plunging Ahead
  5. VI: The Committee for Salvation
  6. VII: The Revolutionary Front
  7. VIII: Counterrevolution
  8. IX: Victory
  9. X: Moscow
  10. XI: The Conquest of Power
  11. XII: The Peasants’ Congress
  12. 1
  13. 2: Wages and Cost of Living Before and During the Revolution
  14. 3: The Socialist Ministers
  15. 4: September Municipal Elections in Moscow
  16. 5: Growing Arrogance of the Reactionaries
  17. 1
  18. 2: Democratic Conference
  19. 3: The Function of the Soviets Is Ended
  20. 4: Trotsky’s Speech at the Council of the Russian Republic
  21. 5: The Nakaz to Skobeliev
  22. 6: Peace at Russia’s Expense
  23. 7: Russian Soldiers in France
  24. 8: Terestchenko’s Speech (Resumé)
  25. 9: The British Fleet (etc.)
  26. 10: Appeals Against Insurrection
  27. 11: Lenin’s “Letter to the Comrades”
  28. 12: Miliukov’s Speech (Resumé)
  29. 13: Interview with Kerensky
  30. 1: Resolution of the Factory-Shop Committees
  31. 2: The Bourgeois Press on the Bolsheviki
  32. 3: Moderate Socialist Press on the Bolsheviki
  33. 4: “Yedinstvo”
  34. 5: Were the Bolsheviki Conspirators?
  35. 6: Appeal Against Insurrection
  36. 7: Events of the Night, November 6th
  37. 1: Events of November 7th
  38. 2: Kerensky in Flight
  39. 3: Looting of the Winter Palace
  40. 4: Rape of the Women’s Battalion
  41. 1: Appeals and Proclamations
  42. 2: Protest of the Municipal Duma
  43. 3: Land Decree—Peasants’ Nakaz
  44. 4: The Land and Deserters
  45. 5: The Council of People’s Commissars
  46. 1: Appeals and Denunciations
  47. 1: Two Decrees
  48. 2: The Strike Fund
  49. 1: Kerensky’s Advance
  50. 2: Proclamations of the Military Revolutionary Committee
  51. 3: Acts of the Council of People’s Commissars
  52. 4: The Liquor Problem
  53. 5: Order No. 2
  54. 1: Military Revolutionary Committee. Bulletin No. 2
  55. 2: Events of the 13th in Petrograd
  56. 3: Truce. Krasnov’s Answer to the Committee for Salvation
  57. 4: Events at Tsarskoye Selo
  58. 5: Appeal of the Soviet Government
  59. 1: Damage to the Kremlin
  60. 2: Lunatcharsky’s Declaration
  61. 3: Questionnaire for the Bourgeoisie
  62. 4: Revolutionary Financial Measure
  63. 1: Limitations of This Chapter
  64. 2: Preamble—Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia
  65. 3: Decrees
  66. 4
  67. 5: Ridicule of the New Regime
  68. 6: On the Question of an Agreement
  69. 7: Wine “Pogroms”
  70. 8: Speculators
  71. 9: Purishkevitch’s Letter to Kaledin
  72. 10: Decree on the Monopoly of Advertisements
  73. 11: Obligatory Ordinance
  74. 12: Two Proclamations
  75. 13
  76. 14: Appeals and Counter-Appeals
  77. 15: Elections to the Constituent Assembly in Petrograd
  78. 16: From the Council of People’s Commissars to the Toiling Cossacks
  79. 17: From the Commission on Public Education Attached to the Central City Duma
  80. 18: Diplomatic Correspondence of the Soviet Government
  81. 19: Appeals to the Front Against Dukhonin
  82. 20: From Krylenko
  83. 1: Instruction to Peasants
  84. 2
  85. Endnotes
  86. List of Illustrations
  87. Colophon
  88. Uncopyright

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