Ten Days That Shook the World (1919) is a book by American journalist and
socialist John Reed about the
October Revolution in Russia in 1917, which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent
Bolshevik leaders closely during his time in Russia. John Reed died in 1920, shortly after the book was finished, and he is one of the few Americans buried at the
Kremlin Wall Necropolis in
Moscow, a site normally reserved only for the most prominent
Soviet leaders.