When he wrote his story about eyewitnesses about the Russian Revolution of 1917, American journalist John Reed was known for ten days that shook the world.
But 10 days are too long for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. They shook things in a week.
He began with a telephone conversation in Putin-Trump on February 12 and their presidential promises to start ties.
He continued with the Munich Security Conference and a schism between Europe and America.
The next Saudi Arabia stop for talks in Russia-Jast, the first high-level contacts between the two countries after the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
This is a week in which the traditional unions were confronted, left Europe and Ukraine to react, sparked fears for European security, and put Russia where it wanted to be: at the most arrogant mass of global politics without making any discounts, for to get there.
An image dominates Russian newspapers on Wednesday morning: senior Russian and US negotiating table officials in Riyadh.
The Kremlin wants the Russian public and the international community to see that Western efforts to isolate Russia during the war in Ukraine have failed.
The Russian media are welcoming the prospect of more warming up with Washington and poured contempt on European leaders and Kyiv.
“Trump knows that he will have to make discounts (in Russia) because he negotiates with the country he wins in Ukraine,” writes Pro-Crem tabloid Moscow Komsomoletti. “He will make discounts. Not at the expense of America, but at the expense of Europe and Ukraine.
“Because for so long, Europe had toured all the swollen, thinking of itself as a civilized world and as a garden of paradise. He was unable to notice that he had lost his pants … Now his old comrade across the Atlantic pointed this …”
I do not find this level of abuse on the streets of Moscow.
Instead, people look and wait to see if Trump will really turn out to be the new most Russian friend of Russia and whether he can end the war in Ukraine.
“Trump is a businessman. He is only interested in making money,” Nadezhda tells me. “I don't think things will be different. There is too much that needs to be done to change the situation.”
“Maybe these conversations (in Saudi Arabia) will help,” George says. “It is high time to stop being enemies.”
“Trump is active. He is energetic. But will he do something?” Irina wonders.
“I am unhappying a common international situation.”
Putin and Trump spoke on the phone; Their two teams met in Saudi Arabia; A presidential summit is expected soon.
But a few days ago, the Moscow Komsomolet newspaper tried to imagine what the two leaders had said to each other during last week's phone call.
They came out with this show:
“Trump called Putin.
'Vladimir! You have a cool side and I have a cool side. Shall we go and divide the world?
“What did I say all the time?” Let's do it!….
Make a belief? We'll see.