John Reed American journalist who lived as a first-hand witness the Russian Revolution of 1917, one of the most important for humanity along with the French. This book has become the most authentic chronicle of the revolutionary movement these days. The seizure of power by the Bolsheviks, the day-to-day life in the cities taken and the hope of millions of workers for the new order that was being created. "If the Englishman E.H. Carr has been the best historian, at a long distance, of the Bolshevik revolution, John Reed has been its best journalist. Manuel Vazquez Montalban