... some positive aspects. These include a graphic account of the heavy propaganda bombardment experienced by the Russian people and the vastly disparate political views prevalent at the time. John Reed's Ten Days That Shook the World2 is a detailed account of the November Revolution. Where this book fails, as such, is that the November Revolution is only one aspect of "the Russian Revolution". To use the term Russian Revolution is to suggest that there was just one, whereas the reality is there were several separate government upheavals3 which led to the replacement of the existing political system, as well as many demonstrations and actions involved. While the book purports to offer a picture of the November Revolution its highly superficial acknowledgement of the circumstances that precipitated this change limits the historians' understanding of the Russian Revolution as a process and not an event. Internal social discontent can be seen to have ...

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