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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458760403321

Autore

Price Ruth <1951->

Titolo

The lives of Agnes Smedley [[electronic resource] /] / Ruth Price

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-280-83512-5

0-19-534386-7

1-4294-6182-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (513 p.)

Disciplina

818/.5209

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Soggetti

Authors, American - 20th century

Journalists - United States

Feminists - United States

Radicals - United States

Espionage, Soviet - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Spelling; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Beginnings; 2 Emergence as a Radical; 3 Indian Activism in Greenwich Village; 4 Moscow Beckons; 5 Love and Pain in Berlin; 6 Becoming a Writer; 7 Bend in the Road; 8 Comintern Agent in China; 9 Richard Sorge and the GRU; 10 Cloak and Dagger in Shanghai; 11 A Fissure Opens; 12 An Unruly Agent; 13 Mutiny in Sian; 14 Calamity Jane of the Chinese Revolution; 15 Selfless for the Cause; 16 Back in the U.S.A.; 17 The Cold War; 18 Exile; Epilogue; A Note on Sources and Citations; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Was she a selfless political activist? A feminist heroine? A gifted writer who rose from poverty to become a leading journalist and author of the cult classic Daughter of Earth? A spy for the Soviet Union? Or all of these things?. Drawing on fifteen years of intensive research and unprecedented access to previously unpublished documents, this vibrant book brings to life one of the twentieth century's most



fascinating women. Ruth Price traces Agnes Smedley's unlikely trajectory from a small Missouri town to the coal country of Colorado; to Berkeley and Greenwich Village; to Berlin, Moscow, and