{"id":1629,"date":"2024-01-15T16:44:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T16:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2024-11-30T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T14:05:13","slug":"larisa-reisner-a-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1629","title":{"rendered":"Larisa Reisner. A Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker is <strong>Cathy Porter<\/strong>, author of a new biography of Larisa Reisner<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mXvpRyDerSU?si=zXs3N69mgqevsPuQ&amp;start=6\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2018She burst across the revolutionary sky like a blazing meteor, dazzling all in her path,\u2019 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\u20131926) was a model for the \u2018new woman\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cathy Porter<\/strong>\u00a0was born in Oxford in 1947, and grew up there. She spent a year in Poland before studying Russian and Czech at London University. Since then she has become deeply involved in the political life and intellectual ideas of the nineteenth &#8211; and twentieth-century Russia. She is the author of Fathers and Daughters: Russian Women in Revolution, and translator of Kollontai&#8217;s fiction Love of Worker Bees. Porter lives in London and divides her time between translating, teaching literacy and researching Russian history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker is Cathy Porter, author of a new biography of Larisa Reisner \u2018She burst across the revolutionary sky like a blazing meteor, dazzling all in her path,\u2019 Trotsky wrote. For&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings","category-past-shs-meetings","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}