John Silas Reed, American journalist, poet, correspondent and communist activist. Photo: El Viejo Topo. Public Domain.
John Silas Reed, American journalist, poet, correspondent and communist activist. Photo: El Viejo Topo. Public Domain. Source: www.elviejotopo.com.

 

John Reed and Louise Bryant, 1918 Photo: Unknown. Public Domain.
John Reed and Louise Bryant, 1918 Photo: Unknown. Public Domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Den socialistiske amerikanske journalist John Reed fødes i Portland, Oregon, 22. oktober 1887 i USA, og dør af tyfus 19. oktober 1920 i Moskva og er begravet i Kreml-muren med opsat navneplade.

Skrev om sine oplevelser af den russiske revolution i november 1917 i bogen Ti dage der rystede verden.

Filmen Reds (1981), instrueret af Warren Beatty, handler om Reed og forholdet til hustruen Louise Bryant og hans oplevelser i Rusland.

John Reed

How the Mexican Revolution made John Reed a Red. By Meagan Day (Jacobin, November 23, 2021). “John Reed’s thrilling dispatches from the front lines of the Mexican Revolution could have made him a pop culture celebrity. Instead, the experience made him a committed socialist.”

100 years since US socialist journalist John Reed’s death. By Sandy English and James Macdonald (World Socialist Web Site, 3 December 2020). “Mid-October marked the 100th anniversary of the untimely death of American revolutionary socialist journalist John Reed. The author of Ten Days That Shook the World, a magnificent firsthand account of the Russian Revolution.”

A century after “Ten Days”. By Andrew Hartman (Jacobin, 4 December 2017). “John Reed penned the definitive account of the October Revolution — and paid a heavy price for it.”

‘A marvellous adventure’: John Reed’s Ten Days that Shook the World (Counterfire, January 8, 2017). “John Reed’s remarkable eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution is introduced by Judy Cox.”

John Reed: reporting on the revolution. By Judy Cox (International Socialism, Issue 81, Winter 1998). Review of John Newsinger (ed.), Shaking the World: John Reed’s Revolutionary Journalism (Bookmarks, 1998). “This collection of John Reed’s passionate and analytical journalism, 1914-20, describes the revolution in Mexico, the class struggle in America, the birth pangs of American Communism and his own dispatches from the midst of the Russian Revolution.”

Fellow-Travelling. By Neal Ascherson (London Review of Books, Vol.18, No.3, 8 February 1996). Review of The Collected Works of John Reed (Modern Library, 1995, 937 p.). “He was anything but a callow romantic. In 1917, Reed was already a socialist journalist who had covered revolutionary war in Mexico and had involved himself not only in writing about some of the most brutal industrial struggles in the United States.”

John Reed and the real thing (pdf). By Michael Gold (The New Masses, Vol.3, No.7, Nov. 1927; online at Marxists Internet Archive). “Jack Reed lived the fullest and grandest life of
any young man in our America. History is already saying this in Soviet Russia. It will say it a century from now in the textbooks of America.”

John Reed: Under the Kremlin. By Lincoln Steffens. With an introduction by Clarence Darrow (Chicago, 1922, 14 sider) (Internet Archive; American Libraries). Samtidig online biografi om John Reed.

The last days with John Reed: A letter from Louise Bryant (The Liberator, February 1921; online at Marxists Internet Archive). “All that I write now seems part of a dream. I am in no pain at all and I find it impossible to believe that Jack is dead or that he will not come in this very room any moment.”

Litteratur

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John Reed (Bibliografi.dk: international forfatterbibliografi). De to oversatte bøger af John Reed til dansk + og udgaverne af disse bøger.

John Reed: Storm over Mexico (Gyldendal, 1980, 237 sider). Orig.: Insurgent Mexico (1914). Online i engelsk udgave: Insurgent Mexico (Archive.org)

John Reed: Ti dage der rystede verden (1918) (Sputnik Forlag, 1987, 376 sider, 3. udgave). Oversættelse af Gelius Lund, med tillæg af Erley Olsen, side 297-376. Online på Marxistisk Internet Arkiv: Dansk afdeling (minus tillæg) + Marxisme Online.

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  • Ten Days That Shook the World (Wikipedia.org)
    Anmeldelser:
    Our history, review by Alex Miller (Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, 20 May 2008)
  • Review by Mick Hume (Spiked Review of Books, July 2017; an edited and updated version of an essay in No.6, October 2007). “… John Reed’s pulsating first-hand account still packs a punch.”

“Det er med den største interesse og usvækket opmærksomhed, jeg har læst John Reeds bog “Ti dage, der rystede verden”.
Jeg anbefaler den uforbeholdent til arbejderne i hele verden. Her er en bog, som jeg gerne ville se udgivet i millioner af eksemplarer og oversat til alle sprog. Den giver en sandfærdig og overordentlig levende fremstilling af begivenheder, der er betyd­ningsfulde for forståelsen af, hvad den proletariske revolution og proletariatets diktatur virkelig er.” (V.I. Lenin, 1919).


Illustrationer: Øverst amerikanske originaludgave, den tyske førsteudgave fra 1922 i “sovjetstil” på Verlag der Kommunistiske Internationale, og herover tysk montageforside af John Heartfield (mere om Heartfield, på Tidslinjen 10. juni 1891 fra 1927, forord af Egon Erwin Kisch.

Filmen Reds (1981)

 

Red Army soldiers attend funeral of john Reed at the Kremlin, October 1920. Photo: Unknown. Public Domain.
Red Army soldiers attend funeral of john Reed at the Kremlin, October 1920. Photo: Unknown. Public Domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Se også

Louise Bryant at husband John Reed's funeral. Original caption: "Nothing Louise Bryant ever wrote matches in poignancy the moving description of her last minutes at John Reed’s deathbed in Moscow in October of 1920, a victim of typhus, at the age of thirty-three. “Have you ever stared into the white eyes of death,” she asks Max Eastman in a long letter detailing their last days together and the dreadful realization she had been clinging to Reed’s hand long after he had passed away. Here she is at Reed’s funeral. Photo: Unknown, Public Domain.
Louise Bryant at husband John Reed’s funeral. Original caption: “Nothing Louise Bryant ever wrote matches in poignancy the moving description of her last minutes at John Reed’s deathbed in Moscow in October of 1920, a victim of typhus, at the age of thirty-three. “Have you ever stared into the white eyes of death,” she asks Max Eastman in a long letter detailing their last days together and the dreadful realization she had been clinging to Reed’s hand long after he had passed away. Here she is at Reed’s funeral. Photo: Unknown, Public Domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

 

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