# Boris Kamkov — Ten Days That Shook the World character guide

> Boris Kamkov in Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Kamkov

**First appearance:** 0011-i-background

## Snapshot

Boris Kamkov speaks for the peasants who must be won, the Left Socialist Revolutionary whose alliance with the Bolsheviks rests on a knife's edge of mutual need.

## Who they are

Kamkov belongs to the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, the logical heirs of peasant leadership, yet they are at the mercy of the organized city proletariat. His party's survival depends on delivering the countryside, while the Bolsheviks depend on peasant grain to avoid famine. Through the middle of the book, his position dramatizes the central question: can the revolution survive without the eighty percent who work the land?

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