Yashka : My life as peasant, exile and soldier

Name: Yashka : My life as peasant, exile and soldier
Author: Mariia Bochkareva

by Mariia Bochkareva, Isaac Don Levine

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United Kingdom: Constable and Company Limited, 1919.

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The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Release date

2023-03-06

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Russian

About the authors

Mariia Bochkareva

1889–1920

A peasant woman turned soldier, she became one of the most striking figures of World War I Russia after organizing the Women’s Battalion of Death in 1917. Her life story moves from hardship and front-line service to revolution, exile, and a violent end.

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Isaac Don Levine

1892–1981

A Russian-born American journalist who reported on revolution, espionage, and the Soviet world with unusual firsthand experience. His career moved from newspaper reporting to fiercely anti-communist writing, making him a vivid and sometimes controversial voice of the 20th century.

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