Cathy Porter

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Cathy Porter

Cathy Porter

Cathy Porter

Cathy Porter was born in Oxford in 1947, and grew up there. She spent a year in Poland before studying Russian and Czech at London University. Since then she has become deeply involved in the political life and intellectual ideas of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia. She is the author of Fathers and Daughters: Russian Women in Revolution, and translator of Kollontai's fiction Love of Worker Bees. Cathy Porter lives in London and divides her time between translating, teaching and researching into Russian history.

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