An American journalist on the streets of Petrograd in November 1917 records how the Bolsheviks, at the head of the workers and soldiers, overthrew the Provisional Government. He moves from the Smolny Institute to the Winter Palace, through the street fighting and on to the struggle for Moscow, quoting the proclamations, speeches and posters of the moment.
Openly partisan but vividly observed, it is one of the best-known first-hand accounts of the Russian Revolution. Download the free EPUB.