John Reed and the Russian Revolution : uncollected articles, letters and speeches on Russia, 1917-1920

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv Front Matter....Pages 1-6 The Fall of the Russian Bastille....Pages 7-12 Russia....Pages 13-16 The Russian Peace....Pages 17-18 A Letter from John Reed....Pages 19-22 Letter to Sally Robinson....Pages 23-25 Letter to Boardman Robinson....Pages 26-27 A Visit to the Russian Army....Pages 28-58 Letter to Boardman Robinson....Pages 59-62 Red Russia: Kerensky, I....Pages 63-68 John Reed Cables the Call News of the Bolshevik Revolt....Pages 69-73 Red Russia: The Triumph of the Bolsheviki....Pages 74-95 Red Russia: Kerensky, II....Pages 96-97 Front Matter....Pages 99-103 The Origins of Workers’ Control in Russia....Pages 104-109 Two Manuscripts on the Revolution....Pages 110-129 Bolsheviki Foes of All Imperialism....Pages 130-135 A Lecture on Conditions in Russia....Pages 136-138 A Message to Our Readers from John Reed Who Has Just Returned from Petrograd....Pages 139-143 ‘Foreign Affairs’....Pages 144-151 Revolutionary Controversies....Pages 152-162 The Case for the Bolsheviki....Pages 163-168 Front Matter....Pages 99-103 ‘Kerensky is Coming!’....Pages 169-184 Memorandum to Colonel House on Intervention in Russia....Pages 185-195 Address to the Jacob Schwartz Memorial Meeting....Pages 196-198 Letter to Upton Sinclair....Pages 199-203 The Second Day....Pages 204-209 The Constituent Assembly in Russia....Pages 210-220 They Are Still There!....Pages 221-223 Front Matter....Pages 225-232 How Soviet Russia Conquered Imperial Germany....Pages 233-245 The Latest from Russia....Pages 246-250 Doctor Rakovsky....Pages 251-252 Prinkipo and After....Pages 253-257 Bolshevism: What It Is Not....Pages 258-264 Notebook Entries on an Interview with Trotsky....Pages 265-266 The Bolsheviks in 1919: Notebook Entries....Pages 267-267 Soviet Russia Now....Pages 268-280 Back Matter....Pages 281-320 John Reed was an American writer and journalist who first made his reputation in 1914 with an account of the Mexican Revolution. This book is about his experiences as a foreign correspondent in Europe during World War I and specifically his account of events in Russia in October 1917.