Writings of Larisa Reisner

by Larisa Reisner Edited and translated by Richard Chappell and Cathy Porter

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Larisa Reisner (1895–1926), fighter, commissar, and diplomat, was one of the most brilliant and popular writers of the Russian Revolution. Her 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.

This volume is published as the companion to Cathy Porter's Larisa Reisner. A Biography.

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Cathy Porter was born in Oxford in 1947, and grew up there. She spent a year in Poland before studying Russian and Czech at London University. Since then she has become deeply involved in the political life and intellectual ideas of the nineteenth - and twentieth-century Russia. She is the author of Fathers and Daughters: Russian Women in Revolution, and translator of Kollontai's fiction Love of Worker Bees. Porter lives in London and divides her time between translating, teaching literacy and researching Russian history.

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Publication date: December 3, 2024

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