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John Reed
1887–1920 Journalist; eyewitness of the October Revolution in Petrograd, 1917
Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1887 and a Harvard graduate of 1910, Reed wrote for The Masses from 1913. He made his name reporting on the Mexican Revolution with Pancho Villa's army, and in 1915 he traveled through the Balkans and Russia, producing The War in Eastern Europe. He opposed American entry into the war. In 1917 he went to Russia with Louise Bryant and was in Petrograd when the Bolsheviks took the Winter Palace on the night of 7–8 November. His account, Ten Days That Shook the World (1919), won Lenin's endorsement. In 1919 he helped found the Communist Labor Party of America and fled the United States for Russia. He died of typhus in Moscow on 17 October 1920 and was buried by the Kremlin wall.
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