John Reed “Rehabilitated”

The “best book on the Russian revolution” is to be republished in Russia with corrective notes—which will not mention the final disillusion of its author

The news that John Reed, literary genius and early American Commu­nist, has been “rehabilitated” by the Khrushchev clique and that his famous book, Ten Days That Shook the World is being published in Russia, moves me to certain memories and reflections.