11. John Read - Publicist

John Reed is an American revolutionary, born. in 1887 in the family of a major official. He received his education at Harvard University, among whose students, belonging to the privileged sections of American society, organized a socialist circle. After graduating from university, he began working as a journalist. Here, John Reed's vigorous energy found a wide field of activity: John Reed was always the first where strikes, workers unrest, occurred in the thick of the class struggle of the proletariat. In 1912, he was in Mexico, where an uprising of farm laborers broke out, in 1913, in Paterson, where the textile workers' strike turned into an open uprising. With the beginning of the imperialist war of 1914-1918. John Reed is always on the most dangerous sections of the anti-militarist front. In 1915, he arrived in Russia and was soon arrested for the bold revelations of the tsarist government. In 1916, he edits the revolutionary Mass magazine in America. In the summer of 1917 he was again in Russia, now revolutionary, and in the October days serves his first work of the rebellious proletariat. In the spring of 1918, he returned to America as a communist and devoted himself entirely to the creation of the Communist Party of America. He also wrote the famous book Ten Days That Shook the World. John Reid diligently propagated in America the truth about Russia, delivered speeches at countless mass meetings in various cities, wrote articles. But since the bourgeois newspapers refused to print it, he had to create his own magazines (Revolutionary Age, Kommunist). In 1919, he was one of the organizers of the Communist Workers Party of America, formed from the breakaway left wing of the socialist party, and edited its organ, the Voice of Labor. As a delegate to the Communist Party of America, John Reed came to Moscow at the 2nd Congress of the Comintern in 1920, but soon fell ill with typhus and died. His body was buried in Red Square under the Kremlin wall.