John Reed 
Ten Days that Shook the World [PDF ebook] 

Ten Days that Shook the World is a first-hand account of Russia’s October Revolution of 1917. Written in 1919 by the American journalist and socialist John Reed, it follows many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders of this time. Reed died the year after his book was finished and was buried in Moscow’s Kremlin Wall Necropolis – one of the few Americans accorded this honor usually reserved for the Soviet’s most prominent leaders.