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Writings of Larisa Reisner

Cathy Porter Richard Chappell

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English
Brill
29 November 2023
Larisa Reisner (1895--1926), fighter, commissar, diplomat, was one of the most brilliant and popular writers of the Russian Revolution, whose journalism from her travels in Russia and Ukraine, Germany, Persia and Afghanistan was read by millions in the new mass circulation Soviet press. Together here for the first time in translation are the six books of her journalism, The Front, Afghanistan, Berlin October 1923, Hamburg at the Barricades and In Hindenburg’s Country, all written in the last nine years of her life, before her death at the age of thirty, published as the companion volume to Cathy Porter’s Larisa Reisner. A Biography.
Edited and translated by:   ,
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   302
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 155mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   712g
ISBN:   9789004687004
ISBN 10:   9004687009
Series:   Historical Materialism Book Series
Pages:   352
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Cathy Porter studied Russian and Czech at London’s School of Slavonic East European Studies and Cambridge University, and has published over 20 books on Russia, including the recent Alexandra Kollontai: Writings from the Struggle (Bookmarks, 2019). Richard Chappell's other translations from Russian include Alexander Shlyapnikov's On the Eve of 1917 (Allison & Busby, 1982), and Boris Pasternak's epic poems The Year 1905 and Lieutenant Schmidt (Spenser Books, 1989 & 1992).

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