Uzbek state world languages university

JOHN SAILES REED (1887-1920)

The prominent publicist, beloved son of American people, Reed became a prototype of a freedom-loving man. For his short life John Reed wrote 10 boors, 3 plays, 59 poems, 41 stories, 192 essays and articles. He had a variable talent, he was a poet, a dramatist, novelist, essayist and talented journalist.

After the beginning of WWI Reed, realizing the real purpose of that war, called it “the war of the tradesmen”. In 1914-1915 being a military correspondent he visited France, England, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Russia. In his articles he exposed the real sense of the war. In September 1917 he came to Russia as a

correspondent of the magazine “Masses”. Reed was in the center of the political life of Petrograd and he was the witness of the October Revolution. His book “Ten Days That Shook the World” is the first truthful book of a foreign journalist about that Revolution, the events of those days. He showed both the activities of the temporary bourgeois government and the struggle of the proletariat.

In August 1919 the left wing of the Socialist Party of America after Charles Ruthenburg and John Reed proposal organized the Communist Party of the USA. Then he illegally came to Russia and began his work in Commintern. He went all over Russia, visited a lot of plants, towns and villages. In October 1920 he fell ill, it was typhus, of which he died. He was buried in the Kremlin wall.