Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed. Published by Krasnaya Nov, Glavpolitprosvet, Moscow, 1924. Second edition. Softcover, design by Sergey Chekhonin, 1878 to 1936, a Russian graphic artist and illustrator of the Mir Iskusstva movement, artistic director of the State Porcelain Factory in Leningrad from 1918 to 1923. There is handwriting on the back cover. Ten Days That Shook the World is a 1919 book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed, 1887 to 1920. The book gives a firsthand account of the 1917 Russian October Revolution. Antiquarian Librarian Books Publications For Collectors, Early Soviet Print.