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Larisa Reisner. A Biography
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 266
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‘She burst across the revolutionary sky like a blazing meteor, dazzling all in her path,’ Trotsky wrote. For the poet Boris Pasternak, she was Lara, the heroine of his novel Doctor Zhivago. Commissar, revolutionary fighter, espionage agent, journalist, Larisa Reisner (1895–1926) was a model for the ‘new woman’ of the Russian Revolution, and one of its most popular and brilliant writers, whose works were published in mass editions and read by millions. Her life is set against the world-shaking events of 1917, and draws on material recently released from the Soviet archives to tell her story through the memories of those close to her, her own voluminous writings, and her six books, published for the first time together by Brill with this biography.
This biography is accompanied by Brill’s publication of Cathy Porter and Richard Chappell’s Writings of Larisa Reisner, published as volume 302 in the Historical Materialism book series.
This biography is accompanied by Brill’s publication of Cathy Porter and Richard Chappell’s Writings of Larisa Reisner, published as volume 302 in the Historical Materialism book series.
Cathy Porter studied Russian and Czech literature at London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies and Cambridge University, and has published over 20 books on Russia, including most recently, Alexandra Kollontai. Writings From the Struggle (Bookmarks, 2020), as well as translations of the plays of Maxim Gorky and the diaries of Sofia Tolstoy.
List of Figures
Timeline
Introduction
1 Childhood and Exile
2 Student Life
3 Poets and War
4 In Petrograd
5 Red Kronstadt
6 Bolshevik Russia
7 ‘Unforgettable 1918’
8 Svyazhsk
9 Reds and Whites
10 From Moscow to the Caspian
11 Rabfaks and Commissars
12 Afghanistan
13 The New Culture
14 Berlin and Hamburg
15 Across Workers’ Russia
16 Seifullina and Alyosha
17 Germany and China
18 ‘How Extraordinary to Be Alive’
19 Afterlife
Appendix: Figures
Bibliography
Index
Timeline
Introduction
1 Childhood and Exile
2 Student Life
3 Poets and War
4 In Petrograd
5 Red Kronstadt
6 Bolshevik Russia
7 ‘Unforgettable 1918’
8 Svyazhsk
9 Reds and Whites
10 From Moscow to the Caspian
11 Rabfaks and Commissars
12 Afghanistan
13 The New Culture
14 Berlin and Hamburg
15 Across Workers’ Russia
16 Seifullina and Alyosha
17 Germany and China
18 ‘How Extraordinary to Be Alive’
19 Afterlife
Appendix: Figures
Bibliography
Index
Historians of socialism, the early Soviet Union, the Bolshevik Revolution, Russian and Afghanistan, women and revolution, Karl Radek. Students of Russian, undergraduate and post-graduate. Readers with a general interest in the Russian and German revolutions, the history of the women’s liberation movement, and Russian literature, from the ‘Silver Age’ to the Futurists, Proletkult and the socialist realists.