Writings of Larisa Reisner
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2023
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9789004687004
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Brill
Vekt
712 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
352
Biografisk notat
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).
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.
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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
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9789004687004
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Brill
Vekt
712 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
352
Biografisk notat
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).