John Reed: Zehn Tage, die die Welt erschütterten – Reportage aus der Mitte der russischen Oktoberrevolution | Neu editierte 2020er-Ausgabe, in aktualisierter Rechtschreibung, mit Vorworten und einem ausführlichen Begleitwort zu John Reed | Der journalistisch brillanteste Zeitzeugenbericht über die Russische Revolution stammt von einem Amerikaner: John Reed (1887–1920) war ein linksgerichteter Journalist aus Portland, der bereits über die Revolution in Mexiko berichtet hatte und im Ersten Weltkrieg als Kriegsberichterstatter für diverse Medien unterwegs war. Er spürt, dass sich im Jahr 1917 in Russland eine große Machtverschiebung anbahnt, reist nach St. Petersburg und wird die Revolution gegen das ausbeuterische zaristische System so hautnah miterleben, wie kein anderer Berichterstatter. Er interviewt die Mächtigen, spricht mit dem Volk, den Arbeitern, Matrosen, Marktleuten. Mit einem außerordentlichen Gefühl für die Psyche der Handelnden seziert er diese Zeit des Aufbruchs, die in der Luft schwebenden Visionen, den Enthusiasmus, die Atmosphäre des Umsturzes – wie sie einem Menschen selten mehr als einmal im Leben begegnen. – Die New York Times wählte ›Ten Days that shook the World‹ im Jahr 1999 auf Platz Sieben der hundert bedeutendsten journalistischen Werke aller Zeiten. © Redaktion Kallisto Books, 2020
Zehn Tage, die die Welt erschütterten : Reportage aus der Mitte der russischen Oktoberrevolution
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John Reed
John Reed was the kind of man who, one instant, might touch you to your very core -- send a symphony into the marrow of your bones. But he was also the type who, the next instant, might prove exasperatingly shallow. Such was his sad contradiction. There he'd be reciting something truly something -- but reciting it at the exclusive room of the trendiest possible of-the-second club to an audience of those beautiful and ambitious New Yorkers who, though not always successful at it, were the most willing, in the name of glory, to lead lives unexamined and vapid. His tragic and untimely demise unfolded at a juncture when I was most disgusted with him -- for not a month earlier, his reprehensible behavior had ended our relationship. One that had seemed riddled...well, with potential. He could be a boy sometimes, standing as he would have in 1977, a child of the Manhattan wasteland -- a body filthy and lean, and trying to discover for itself honor in the void. This aspect of his work had been of interest to me. And since, during the course of our romance, we discussed our writing with each other, I became quite familiar with his proposal for Duh Whole -- the tale of a girl gone awry, and a great big hole. Hence, it was not unexpectedly (the prospect of finishing the unfinished works of expired authors ever-tempting) that I was approached the very minute John first coughed (with luck, it'd be a foreshadowing of consumption and doom). His outline proved surprisingly complete, and having no book deal of my own, I was soon secured in the effort -- and with John's institutionalization and rapid decline, I was given the green light. If you like my work, you might look for other novels ostensibly by Reed, such as Snowball's Chance and A Still Small Voice, which, incidentally, I also wrote.
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