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Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed Hardcover – 1975

by Robert A. Rosenstone (Author), Illus. with photos (Illustrator)

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Hardcover: 443 pages
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (1975)
ASIN: B000HMOE4O
Average Customer Review: 8 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,765,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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D. J. Singer

Most people will NOT know the story of John Reed ...

November 3, 2017

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Most people will NOT know the story of John Reed and Louise Bryant who were bohemian writers, around the turn of the Century, and the time of the Russian Revolution. The movie REDS is their story, but the written word is so much more powerful. Louise Bryant wrote a book called "My six months in Russia" about when she was there at the exact time of the Russian Revolution 100 years ago now.

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Lawrence R. Holben

An Engaging Biography of an American Original

March 26, 2010

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John Reed is one of the great originals of early 20th century American history. Always struggling between his desire to be a poet and an evolving commitment to social transformation, Reed both typifies and transcends that glorious period before and after the First World War when a heady mix of sexual, political and artistic revolt defined a significant portion of the American intelligencia. If Reed's lover (and later wife) Louise Bryant was, as one biography terms her, the "Queen of Bohemia," Reed was its crown prince, its golden boy.

This biography captures well the mix of immaturity, turn-of-the-century boosterism, self-aggrandizement and revolutionary passion that made up Reed's character. (If you are a lover of the film "Reds," as I am, it also provides an interesting corrective to the film's loose handling of some of the facts of Reed's life.)

As the risk of seeming cynical, Reed's death at a young age and at the hight of his powers (he was buried at the Kremlin, one of only two Americans to receive this honor, the other being Bill Haywood of the I.W.W.), has preserved the legendary glamor of his life in a way that the subsequent careers of others of his Greenwich Village circle (including Bryant herself) did not. But, as one reads this book, it's difficult not to feel a certain nostalgic envy for Reed and his circle and their extraordinary times, despite the painful personal dramas they regularly put each other through.

This is an arresting biographical work, engagingly written and well-researched. Highly recommended.

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June 11, 2017

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GREAT BOOK... GOOD VALUE.

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Marc Lichtman

A good biography of an important American communist

August 16, 2014

Format: Hardcover

I remember in the mid 1970s reading a negative review of this in a revolutionary newspaper I supported and still support. There was at that time a review page every week, and pretty much anyone could write a review. So I knew it didn't represent the point of view of the paper, and it seemed to me that the review was essentially of the title, not the book.

So when I decided more than 30 years later that I wanted to read a biography of Reed, I didn't hesitate to order this one. I was right about the review. I don't even have a problem with the title, although Reed was becoming more than that.

So I recommend this to anyone interested in the early years of American Communism. If you haven't already read Ten Days That Shook the World (Penguin Classics), then you should do so, and follow that up with History of the Russian Revolution.

For those interested in more about the early years of the Communist Party in the US, before it became Stalinized, I suggest First Ten Years of American Communism: Report of a Participant and Revolutionary Continuity: Birth of the Communist Movement 1918-1922.

And for those who want to read the facts about the Baku Conference, as opposed to the enjoyable, but dishonest portrayal in "Reds," I suggest To See the Dawn: Baku, 1920-First Congress of the Peoples of the East (Communist International in Lenin's Time). It contains the speech Reed gave, and another he was planning to give if there had been time. It was Zinoviev who called for a "holy war against imperialism"; he didn't try to put those words in anyone else's mouth.

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Alfred Johnson

Romantic Revolutionary, Indeed!

November 28, 2006

Format: Hardcover

John Reed, Harvard Class of 1910, epitomized the best of the pre-World War I bourgeois radicals. Unlike the vast majority of his Class and class he cast his fate with the working people and oppressed of America at a time when the dominant left bourgeois movement- the Progressive movement- was busy applying band aids to the increasingly inequitable capitalist system. The radical movement is always in need, sometimes desperately in need, of intellectuals to tell its side of the story. Despite some exceptions, like Reed, the intellectuals then, as now, either stood on the sidelines or at most acted as `fellow travelers' to the movement. Reed on the contrary put all his energies into the movement. As a journalist he sought out all the radical hotspots of his time starting with his coverage of the Mexican Revolution, through the various workers' strikes of the 1910's in America culminating in his coverage of the heroic period of the Russian Revolution. His journalistic account of the Bolshevik seizure of power, Ten Days That Shook the World, stands even today as one of the best eyewitness accounts of that turbulent time in Russia.

John Reed's political development also offers today's militant leftists an insight into how the swirl of events drives the best militants leftward. Reed started out in the typically Bohemian milieu of New York City's Greenwich Village and imbibed its avante guarde cultural offerings and its pretensions. However, as the United States lurched into participation into World War I he grew stronger as an anti-war advocate and placed himself on the line to oppose that war. This was the great dividing point in the radical movement of the time. This separated the dilettantes and mere reformists from serious revolutionaries. Not an unusual political development, but an important one.

Under the influence of the Russian Revolution Reed led the left wing of the American Socialist Party on a program of opposition to the war and defense of the Bolshevik Revolution. When the left wing was forced out of the Socialist Party he formed a communist organization based on the centrally of the native American working class as the vanguard of the American Revolution. Opposed to that were left-wingers, mainly foreign born elements based on the various language federations of the old Socialist Party, who essentially wanted to act as cheerleaders for the Russian Revolution-and no much else. The result was the creation of two communist organizations that caused no end of problems both in America and in the Communist International. But the fights to lead the Socialist party leftward and later between the communist organizations are stories for another time, and worth separate space. Read this book for starters.

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