Love of Worker Bees
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'''Author:''' Alexandra Kollontai | '''Author:''' Alexandra Kollontai | ||
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'''Pages:''' 222 | '''Pages:''' 222 | ||
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| + | ''Love of Worker Bees'', written by one of the most famous and gifted Russian women of our century, was greeted on publication in 1923 as sexually too explicit. Fifty years later, this new translation makes available - for the first time on forty years - a remarkable work of fiction which is both a moving love story and a graphic and rare portrait of Russian life in the 20s. | ||
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| + | Set in Russia immediately after the October revolution and the end of the Civil War, the heroine Vasya - one of the most delightful in Russian literature - struggles to come to terms with her passionate need and love for her husband, and the demands of the new world in which she lives. Her story unfolds against a backcloth of the 'ordinary' Russian people of the time - the Party workers, entrepreneurs, prostitutes, manipulators, idealists. | ||
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| + | As a portrait of a society in transition, ''Love of Worker Bees'' is unique; as a love story, a fascinating and poignant work of art. | ||
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[[Category:Fiction]] | [[Category:Fiction]] | ||
