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Larisa Reisner (1895–1926), fighter, commissar, and diplomat, was one of the most brilliant and popular writers of the Russian Revolution. Her journalism from her travels in Russia and Ukraine, Germany, Persia and Afghanistan was read by millions in the new mass circulation Soviet press. Together here for the first time in translation are the six books of her journalism, The Front, Afghanistan, Berlin October 1923, Hamburg at the Barricades and In Hindenburg's Country, all written in the last nine years of her life, before her death at the age of thirty. This volume is published as the...

Sir Andrzej Panufnik was born in Warsaw and studied in the newly independent Poland in the 1930s, as well as in Vienna and Paris just before the outbreak of the Second World War. During the German occupation he formed a piano duo with his friend and fellow composer Witold LutosEawski, and they performed in cafes around Warsaw. After the war, Panufnik quickly established himself as a leading Polish composer, and as a conductor he played a significant role in the re-establishment of first the Krakow and then the Warsaw Philharmonic. Although he was considered Polanda s leading composer for some...