Writings of Larisa Reisner

Larisa Reisner

Editors / Translators: Cathy Porter and Richard Chappell
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 FrontAfghanistanBerlin October 1923Hamburg 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.

Biographical Note

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).

Readership

English Readers with a general interest in Russian history and Russian literature, from the Silver Age to the Futurists, will enjoy this book.

Table of Contents

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