Red Youth: Young Heroes of the Great Patriotic War documents the extraordinary achievements of the young men and women of the Soviet Union’s anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War.  The first volume of this series features newly annotated editions of Soviet-era documents chronicling the life of legendary partisan fighter Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, the first woman to receive the distinction of “Hero of the Soviet Union” during the Second World War.

Contents include annotated editions of the following documents:

Mike Bessler was born in Huntington, West Virginia. He received his undergraduate and master’s degrees through Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He has worked in the social services field for over 15 years and in 2006, he received an award for his work with victims of domestic violence. Mike has been a volunteer and administrator for Marxists Internet Archive since 2001, creating and maintaining web archives for a diverse range of writers from the Marxist tradition, including Natalia Sedova Trotsky, Bhagat Singh, Zhou Enlai and Josip Broz Tito. In 2009, Mike founded Erythrós Press and Media. He currently lives in southwestern Ohio with his wife and two daughters.

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