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From the tsars to the soviets to modern day and everything in between
10 days that shook the world. An eye-witness account of the 1917 revolution by an American journalist who was there at the time. It's endorsed by both Lenin and the New York TImes. Lenin called it:
The New York times placed it 7th in it's top 100 works of journalism:
I recently listened to this, it was a pretty fun listen. He definitely gives a pro-bolshevik angle but he interviews a bunch of people who weren't, I think it gives a pretty good idea of the political situation and how it was rapidly changing at the time.
My favorite part is how completely pissed SRs were that the Bolsheviks were just like "Hey that's a nice land redistribution policy you have there, we're just going to decree that now that we're in charge."
