Red Youth: Young Heroes
of the Great Patriotic War
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:
- Foreword by
Mike
Bessler (view
full text)
- The full text
of
Lyubov Kosmodemyanskaya’s
1942 short work My
Daughter Zoya
- "How it
Happened," a
selection from Lyubov
Kosmodemyanskaya’s 1953 work The Story of Zoya and Shura
- "Guerilla
War," a
selection from the book Soviet
Calendar 1947: Thirty
Years of the Soviet State
- "The
Tasks of the Youth Leagues"
by V.I. Lenin (October 2, 1920)
- "Victory Will
Be
Ours!" by J.V. Stalin
(July 3, 1941)
- "Stalin's
Victory
Address to the Soviet People" (May
9, 1945)
In February 2010, a copy of this book was accepted into the collection of materials at the Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Museum in Moscow. Read more about this on our blog.
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. |
