Each 60 minute episode explores either one or two significant events from history through a combination of dramatisation, archive footage, and eyewitness accounts. Ten days that shook the world critical survey of contemporary fiction. Ten days that shook the world dvd movie video at cd universe, enjoy top rated service and worldwide shipping. In sergey eisenstein next made a film entitled october, or ten days that shook the world, which in the space of two hours dealt with the shifts of power in the government after the 1917 revolution, the entrance on the scene of lenin, and the struggle between the bolsheviks and their political and. It presents a wonderfully vivid and forceful description of the first days of the october revolution. Sergei eisensteins ten days that shook the world 1928 open. In the meantime, we recognize and celebrate 1917 with eisensteins amazing and monumental october.
The book was penned by john reed, a socialist journalist from the united states, who was the subject of the warren beatty movie, reds. While the mensheviks vacillate, an advance guard infiltrates the palace. Ten days that shook the world homework help questions. It is currently being shown on discovery channel uk on weekdays at 4pm. Ten days that shook the world 1927 addeddate 20100606 05. It was a bright cold day in april, and the clocks were strik ing thirteen. Ten days that shook the world was the title john reed gave his remarkable book. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. A day that shook the world recalls the days of the 20th century that proved to be eradefining and pivotal in the course of modern history. John reed died in 1920, shortly after the book was finished, and he is one of the few americans buried at. Ten days that shook the world ten days that shook the world information about project gutenberg. It dictates where we can and cant go and has done so for explorers of centuries past. A largescale view on the events of 1917 in russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
Ten days that shook the world 1919 is a book by the american journalist and socialist john reed about the october revolution in russia in 1917, which reed experienced firsthand. It is a celebratory dramatization of the 1917 october revolution commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the event. The programmer and copresenter of ten films that shook the world is film historian and critic ed rampell, who majored in cinema at hunter college, manhattan, co. Ten days that shook the world 1967 sepuluh hari yang mengguncang dunia. In ten days that shook the world john reed conveys, with the immediacy of cinema, the impression of a whole nation in ferment and disintegration. This ebook text has been shared by project gutenberg. Major events throughout history have changed and defined the world we inhabit and explore today. John reed 18871920 poet, dramatist, radical, adventurer and a foremost journalist of his day, john reed poured all his talents and emotions into this, his most celebrated work. Presented in documentary style, this 1928 soviet silent film recreates the events in petrograd, beginning with the crumbling of the russian monarchy in. Ten days that shook the world is a 1928 soviet silent historical film by sergei eisenstein. No book, picture or play could have given a more realistic impression of those days of bloodshed and horror.
Desyat dney kotorye potryasli mir is a 1928 soviet silent historical film by sergei eisenstein and grigori aleksandrov. Sergei eisensteins ten days that shook the world 1928. The series was also released on dvd by the polish edition of newsweek in 2007. Like so many other artists in russia and beyond, sergei eistenstein was beyond inspired by the socialist vision that seemed a reality in the years that followed 1917. October ten days that shook the world the loft cinema. What had fused that disorganised mass of undisciplined red guards, and soldiers without officers, into an army obedient to its own elected high command. Commissioned by the soviet government to commemorate the tenth anniversary of that revolution, the film was originally released in 1928 as oktober in the soviet union, and later internationally as ten days that shook the world, borrowing from john reeds wellknown book on the revolution. Better known as october andor ten days that shook the world this sergei eisenstein classic recreates the final days of the soviet revolution.
Download ten days that shook the world study guide subscribe now. Ten days that shook the world by john reed this free downloadable ebook can be read on your computer or ereader. Ten days that shook the world dvd movie cd universe. The sarajevo assassination is a 1975 czechoslovakyugoslavgerman coproduction film directed by veljko bulajic, starring christopher plummer and florinda bolkan. In september 1970 terrorists hijacked a number of jetliners, flew them to jordan and kept numerous hostages to enforce their demands. By this time, in the light that streamed out of all the winter palace windows, i could see that the first two or three hundred men were red guards. Reed followed many of the prominent bolshevik leaders closely during his time in russia. The making of modern russia 1983, 2nd edition, lionel kochan and richard abraham, penguin. Here we have the quintessential example of the high. No 47 ten days that shook the world by john reed 1919 the american socialists romantic account of the russian revolution is a. Ten days that shook the world by john reed penguin books 351 pages paperback. Ten days that shook the world 1919 is a book by the american journalist and socialist john. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record of the events in petrograd in november 1917, when lenin and the bolsheviks finally seized power. Ten days that shook the world, image courtesy of seagull films.
Ten days that shook the worldchapter i wikisource, the. Ten days that shook the world by john reed goodreads. Cinema films first shown before january 1, 1929 are subjects of points 1 and 2 of this template. Ten days that shook the world wikisource, the free. Ten days that shook the world is a compendium of eyewitness reporting and translated except for some illustrations source materials from this pivotal point in the russian revolution. Sergei bondarchuks war and peace film of ten days that shook the world, about the october revolution in 1917, depicts, from the point of the view of two foreign journalists in petrograd, the events which would shape russia for the 20th century. Ten days that shook the world 1967 sepuluh hari yang. He was still there five days later when he learned that the enemy had closed to within ten miles. October ten days that shook the world 1927 95 min drama, history. The film has also been known as ten days that shook the world, its release title in the u. In december 1988 pan am flight 103 was blown from the sky killing all aboard and a number of lockerbie scotland residents. After a few minutes huddling there, some hundreds of men, the army seemed reassured and without any orders suddenly began again to flow forward.
Days that shook the world is a british documentary television series that first aired on september 17, 2003, is currently in its third season, and airs on bbc, the history channel and viasat history. So, with the crash of artillery, in the dark, with hatred, and fear, and reckless daring, new russia was b. Download free ebooks of classic literature, books and novels at. These are the days on which political revolutions, technological breakthroughs, and sporting triumphs took place, and whose effects were felt the worldover.
Ten movies that shook the world scanners roger ebert. Review by alex miller john reeds classic account of the russian revolution of november 1917 isnt an attempt at largescale dispassionate historical analysis, but an eyewitness account of the bolsheviks rise to power penned on the spot or shortly afterwards by a sympathetic us socialist. John reed died in 1920, shortly after the book was finished, and he is one of the few americans buried at the kremlin wall. Originally released as october in the soviet union, the film was reedited and released internationally as ten days that shook the world, after john reeds popular book on the revolution. Those of you who want to download any etext before announcement can surf to them as follows, and just. Join us for two screenings of films from legendary soviet directors sergei eisenstein and vsevolod pudovkin. Ten days that shook the world 1967 stream deutsch hd. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading ten days that shook the world. Only two days ago the petrograd campagna was full of leaderless bands, wandering aimlessly.
If you discover a defect in this etext within 90 days of receiving it, you can receive a refund of the money if. John reeds ten days that shook the world represents one of the 20th centurys greatest politicalliterary achievements, being one of the first book length eyewitness accounts of the great russian october revolution. The film is about the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand and his wife sophie in sarajevo in 1914 and the immediate. Days that shook the world is a british documentary television series that premiered on bbc two on 17 september 2003 and lasted for three series. October ten days that shook the world 1928 movie youtube. October ten days that shook the world wexner center. Mobi files can be read on kindles, epub files can be read on other ebook readers, and zip files can be downloaded and read on your computer. It is not a mere enumeration of facts, nor a collection of documents, but a succession of scenes from life, so typical that any participant in the revolution.
This film is highly reminiscent of eisensteins later work, potemkin, in that it looks like like a typical historical film but more like a recreation of the eventsmuch like a. 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. Ten days that shook the world kindle edition by reed, john. Krasnye kolokola, film vtoroy ya videl rozhdenie novogo mira 1983. Publication date 1919 publisher boni and liveright collection americana digitizing sponsor. Six months after the publication of ten days that shook the world in the united states, reed returned to russia where he died the following year. The making of modern russia 1983, 2nd edition, lionel kochan and richard. This work is in the public domain in the united states because it was published before january 1, 1925. The film opens with the elation after the february revolution and the establishment of the provisional. Shook the world, a firsthand account of the curical early days of the 1917 bolshevik. Reed followed many of the prominent bolshevik leaders, especially grigory zinoviev and karl radek, closely during his time in russia. Originally released as october in the soviet union, the film was reedited and released internationally as ten days that shook the world, after john reeds. Having at one bound leaped from the middle ages into the twentieth century, russia showed the startled world two systems of revolutionthe political and the socialin mortal combat.
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