Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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