Notes for this book's publication were collected on assignment for the periodical The Masses, and its author had previously published a book of poems entitled Sangar: The Mad Recreant Knight of West.
In George Orwell's proposed preface to Animal Farm, entitled "The Freedom of the Press," he claimed that the British Communist Party, who had the copyright to this work, published a bowdlerized version of it, with the introduction removed. Notes for this book's publication were collected on assignment for the periodical The Masses, and its author had previously published a book of poems entitled Sangar: The Mad Recreant Knight of West. This work begins by discussing accusations levied by the Sisson Documents, which were the subject of a previous study, before the author devotes a chapter to the "Committee for Salvation." The end describes a meeting of the Congress of Peasants, after having documented the fall of the Provisional Government. This book lends its name to the full title of Sergei Eisenstein's film, October. FTP, name this first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution by American socialist John Reed.
In George Orwell's proposed preface to Animal Farm, entitled "The Freedom of the Press," he claimed that the British Communist Party, who had the copyright to this work, published a bowdlerized version of it, with the introduction removed.
{Ten Days} That {Shook} the {World}