October: Ten Days That Shook the World   is a Soviet silent film made in 1927 by Sergei Eisenstein, sometimes referred to simply as October in English. It is a dramatization praising the 1917 October Revolution.  October was one of two films commissioned by the Soviet government to honour the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution. Eisenstein was chosen to head the project due to the international success he had achieved with The Battleship Potemkin in 1925 . The title is taken from John Reed's book on the Revolution, Ten Days That Shook The World.  Though Eisenstein was forced to edit the work to expunge any reference of Trotski, this copy shows Trotski in it.  He is still somewhat disparaged, but the fact that Eisenstein dared to show him at a time of official censorship by Stalin is quite interesting.  Also of interest is the fact that there is absolutely no mention of Stalin in the film, even though the Cult of Personality was in full swing at the time.  The music to the film, provided by Shostakovich, helps to intensify the drama behind this fairly accurate story of the Revolution in Russia.