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Book SynopsisThe life of legendary revolutionary fighter and journalist Larisa Reisner (1895–1926) 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, to be published together in translation for the first time by Brill with this biography.
Table of ContentsList 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
