Larisa Reisner. a Biography

by Catherine Porter

'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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004297057
• ISBN13: 9789004297050
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 400 Pages