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Larisa Reisner
Larisa Reisner (1895-1926), fighter, commissar, and diplomat, was one of the most brilliant and popular writers of the Russian Revolution. Her journalism from her travels in Russia and Ukraine, Germany…
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Cathy Porter
Porters book traces Kollontais development as a Marxist as well as her growing concern with the position of women in Russias backward economy. From early on, Kollontai fought for the…
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"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…
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Kollotai was a brilliant and passionate defender of the ideals of the Russian revolution and women’s liberation.
The first accessible translation of Sofia Tolstoy’s diaries chronicles in extraordinary detail Sofia’s marriage to the legendary man of letters, all set against the backdrop of Russia’s turbulent history at…
Reading Cathy Porter’s new chapbook, The Dash Between Us, brings to mind two antecedents in particular: e.e.cummings littlehowtown and Paul Simon’s, Our Little Town. Interpersonal relationships are defined by the…
Catherine Porter
The 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…
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"The six books by legendary Russian revolutionary, diplomat, espionage agent, and journalist Larisa Reisner, published here together for the first time in translation, set the story of her life against…
Maxim Gorky
This collection of four plays, written at the turn of the 20th century, chart the descent of Russia into revolution.
Larissa Vasilieva
From behind the fortress walls of the Kremlin, the often shocking truth about the women close to communist power.
For over seventy years the Kremlin was the bastion of the…
I. Grekova
My husband was killed at the front right at the beginning of the war. Thus opens The Ship of Widows, the story of five women brought together in a large…
A.M. Kollontai
Omnibus edition of two works of fiction by one of Russia’s most famous feminists - the only female in Lenin’s government
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A young woman is transformed by a magical journey.
Karel Capek
There was no writer like him… prophetic assurance mixed with surrealistic humour and hard-edged social satire: a unique combination (Arthur Miller)
Sofia Tolstoy
When Sofia Behrs married Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of War and Peace , husband and wife regularly exchanged diaries covering the years from 1862 to 1910. Sofia’s life was…
