Manya Reiss

Headstone for Manya Reiss at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing

Manya Reiss (also known as Maria Aerova, sometimes spelled Ayerova, Chinese: 马尼娅; pinyin: Mǎníyà, 1900–1962) was an American Marxist–Leninist and a founding member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

Manya Reiss was of Russian-Jewish origin and immigrated to the United States in 1912.[1] In the United States, she was a garment worker as well as a communist activist.[2] In 1931, she attended the International Lenin School.[1] After this, she worked for the Eastern Secretariat of the Comintern and was later sent on missions to Germany and France.[1] She returned to the United States in the late 1930s to work for the propaganda department of the Communist Party USA and to teach at a party school.[1] By 1940, she had returned to Moscow.[1]

In 1957,[3] a few years after the death of Stalin, Reiss went to Beijing, China to work for the Beijing Daily[4] and the Xinhua News Agency.[5]

Manya Reiss died of cancer in Beijing[6] and was buried at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, Kirill Mikhailovich Anderson (1998): The Soviet world of American communism, Yale University Press
  2. ↑ China reconstructs, Issues 1-12, page 13
  3. ↑ Women of China , Issues 1-2, page 24
  4. ↑ Mary M. Leder, Laurie Bernstein (2001): My life in Stalinist Russia: an American woman looks back, Indiana University Press
  5. ↑ Pan Guang, Jews in China, China Intercontinental Press, 2005
  6. ↑ Anne-Marie Brady (2003): Making the foreign serve China: managing foreigners in the People's Republic, Rowman & Littlefield
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