Larisa Reisner. a Biography.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book
• Author: Porter, Catherine.
• Place / Publishing House: Liverpool : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Materialism Book
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (398 pages)

"'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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Figures -- ‎Timeline -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Chapter 1. Childhood and Exile -- ‎Chapter 2. Student Life -- ‎Chapter 3. Poets and War -- ‎Chapter 4. In Petrograd -- ‎Chapter 5. Red Kronstadt -- ‎Chapter 6. Bolshevik Russia -- ‎Chapter 7. 'Unforgettable 1918' -- ‎Chapter 8. Svyazhsk -- ‎Chapter 9. Reds and Whites -- ‎Chapter 10. From Moscow to the Caspian -- ‎Chapter 11. Rabfaks and Commissars -- ‎Chapter 12. Afghanistan -- ‎Chapter 13. The New Culture -- ‎Chapter 14. Berlin and Hamburg -- ‎Chapter 15. Across Workers' Russia -- ‎Chapter 16. Seifullina and Alyosha -- ‎Chapter 17. Germany and China -- ‎Chapter 18. 'How Extraordinary to Be Alive' -- ‎Chapter 19. Afterlife -- ‎Appendix: Figures -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index.