anyone read the book?
was Reed wrong? did the soviets really suck?
He wasn't 'wrong' in his reporting on Lenin's coup and the Bolshevik takeover. His bias is pretty clearly in favor of the communist cause and the comintern in particular. In reality he became disillusioned with the revolution pretty quickly, like most of the American anarchists / progressives who'd initially supported it, but he was essentially a hostage of the regime.