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...Soviet Union is heaping new honors on John Reed '10, author of "Ten Days That Shook the World," a famous eyewitness account of the Bolshevik revolution...
...Ukranian town of Novoselitsa, which Reed visited as a correspondent during World War I, recently opened the John Reed Museum and named a street after the author, the Soviet news agency Tass reported yesterday...
...member of the Harvard Lampoon, the Hasty Pudding Club and the Harvard Socialists during his undergraduate years, Reed covered the overthrow of the Czarist government for Metropolitan Magazine...
Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, said yesterday "Ten Days That Shook the World" is "a highly romantic account without much relationship to reality." The Soviet government uses Reed today as a "good name, a foreigner, just about the only one at the time sympathetic to the Bolshevik cause," Pipes added...
...Reed became popular at Harvard after his death from typhus in 1920, and John Reed Societies sprang up here and throughout the country during the 1930s, Pipes said...