- Name
- John Reed
- Born
- 22 October 1887, Portland, Oregon, United States
- Died
- 17 October 1920, Moscow, Soviet Russia
- Aliases
- John Silas Reed; Jack Reed; John Reed (printed signature)
- Position in 1919–1920
- Journalist, writer and communist organizer; founder and international delegate of the Communist Labor Party
- Affiliations
- Communist Labor Party; The Masses (journalistic collaboration)
- Council delegate
- unknown
- Bio
- Reed reported on American labor struggles, the Mexican Revolution and the First World War before witnessing the Russian Revolution. His Ten Days That Shook the World appeared in 1919. He helped found the Communist Labor Party and represented it internationally. His contribution to L’Ordine Nuovo combines an explanation of Soviet institutions with personal recollections of revolutionary assemblies and encounters between workers and peasants.
- Articles
- 4
Indexed full catalog cards · Issues I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4, I.5, I.6, I.7, I.8, I.9, I.10, I.11, I.12, I.13, I.14, I.15, I.16, I.17, I.18, I.19, I.20, I.21, I.22, I.23, I.24, I.25, I.26, I.27, I.28, I.29, I.30, I.31, I.32, I.33, I.34, I.35, I.36, I.37, I.38, I.39, I.40, I.41, I.42, I.43, II.1, II.2, II.3, II.4, II.5, II.6. Coauthored cards count once for each named author. Serialized installments are counted as separate issue cards.
- Brief records / quotations
- 0 · Separate from the Articles count.
- Other Notes
- He died of typhus in Moscow and was buried near the Kremlin Wall. Attendance at congresses and work as a party delegate do not establish election as a factory-council delegate. The translator and original publication source of the Italian installment remain unknown.
L’Ordine Nuovo / Contributor
John Reed
Sources
Biographical research checked 2026-10-07. Printed signatures and contribution details follow the indexed facsimiles and the catalog’s attribution notes. “unknown” means not securely established; advocacy of councils does not establish service as an elected delegate.