Manya Reiss ( English Manya Reiss , Chinese. 马尼娅 ; also known as Maria Aerova; Maria Aerova ; 1900-1962) is an American public figure, one of the founders of the US Communist Party (KP USA).
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Born on the territory of the Russian Empire in a family of Russian-Jewish origin in 1900. Immigrated with her family to the United States in 1912, when she was twelve years old [1] . In the United States, she worked as a seamstress; even as a teenager she became interested in the ideas of the Communists [2] . In 1931 she went to study in the Soviet Union at the International Leninist School in Moscow, the educational institution of the Comintern , where the leaders of the communist movement from Europe and America studied. After completing the courses of this institution, she began working in the Eastern Secretariat of the Comintern , after which she was sent on a mission on a trip to Germany and France. She returned to the United States in the late 1930s and got a job in the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the US Communist Party , and also began teaching at a party school. In 1940 she returned to Moscow.
In 1957 [3] , several years after the death of Joseph Stalin , Manya Reiss was transferred to work in Beijing . She worked in the periodicals of the Beijing Diary [4] and Xinhua [5] .
She died of cancer in Beijing in 1962 and was buried there at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery [6] .
Notes
- ↑ Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, Kirill Mikhailovich Anderson (1998): The Soviet world of American communism, Yale University Press
- ↑ China reconstructs, Issues 1-12, page 13
- ↑ Women of China, Issues 1-2, page 24
- ↑ Mary M. Leder, Laurie Bernstein (2001): My life in Stalinist Russia: an American woman looks back, Indiana University Press
- ↑ Pan Guang, Jews in China, China Intercontinental Press, 2005
- ↑ Anne-Marie Brady (2003): Making the foreign serve China: managing foreigners in the People's Republic, Rowman & Littlefield