Writings of Larisa Reisner

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-68700-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 302, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Porter, Cathy

Chappell, Richard

Weitere Mitwirkende

Porter, Cathy

Chappell, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen Russische Revolution
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Timeline

Introduction

Cathy Porter

The Front

Afghanistan

Berlin, October 1923

Hamburg at the Barricades

Coal Iron and Living People

In Hindenburg’s Country

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).