remarkable woman of the Russian revolution In 1923 she was sent as a secret comintern liaison officer to Germany to report and participate in the aborted uprising of that year. In the last years of her life she travelled extensively as a special correspondent for Izvestiya reporting on the lives of workers in the industrial areas of the Soviet Union. Weakened by recurrent bouts of malaria which she had contracted during the civil war Larissa died of typhus, probably caught from drinking unpasteurised milk, in February 1926. The literary legacy of Larissa Reisner is small, five slim books and numerous articles of which, unfortunately, only two