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The lives of Agnes Smedley /

"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 u...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Price, Ruth, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
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  • 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.