John Reed (journalist)
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John Silas Reed was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist. Reed first gained prominence as a war correspondent during the Mexican Revolution for Metropolitan and World War I for The Mas
Reed c. 1916
The Harvard Monthly Vol. 44 (1907)
A native of Oregon, Reed made New York City the base of his operations.
Reed c. 1917
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
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The Kremlin Wall Necropolis is the former national cemetery of the Soviet Union, located in Red Square in Moscow beside the Kremlin Wall. Burials there began in November 1917, when 240 pro-Bolsheviks
John Reed (journalist)
…death, he may have soured on the Soviet leadership, but he was given a hero's burial by the Soviet Union and is one of only five Americans buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Reed was born on October 22, 1887, in his maternal grandparents' mansion in what is now the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. His…
The tombs of Suslov, Stalin, Kalinin, Dzerzhinsky, Brezhnev in front of the Moscow Kremlin Wall. The tomb of Yuri Andropov, which stands between Kalinin's and Dzerzhinsky's, is obstructed by trees. The mausoleum is immediately to the right.
As recently as 1800, the site of the Necropolis was a boggy moat spanned with stone bridges.
Red Square Mass Graves
10 November 1917. A mass grave on Red Square for people who died in the October Revolution