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2 John Reed, Eye-Witness

2 John Reed, Eye-Witness

Historian Helen Rappaport reappraises American eyewitness to the Revolution, John Reed.

The Essay · BBC Radio 3

November 8, 201714m 4s

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Show Notes

Ten contemporary cultural specialists look back at the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 on artists of the time - in film, theatre, poetry, dance and beyond. 100 years to the day since American journalist John Reed witnessed first-hand the momentous events in revolutionary Petrograd, writer and historian Helen Rappaport reappraises his classic account, Ten Days That Shook the World.

Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

Producer Alison Hindell BBC Cymru Wales.