Larisa Reisner. a Biography.

"'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...

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Superior document:Historical Materialism Book
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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)
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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.