Manya Reiss
Manya Reiss was an American Marxist–Leninist and a founding
member of the Communist Party USA.
Manya Reiss was of Russian-Jewish origin and immigrated to the United States in 1912. In the United States,
she was a garment worker as well as a communist activist. In 1931, she attended the International Lenin School. After this, she worked for the Eastern Secretariat of
the Comintern and was later sent on missions to Germany and
France. 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. By
1940, she had returned to Moscow.
In 1957, a few years after the death of Stalin, Reiss went to
Beijing, China to work for the Beijing Daily and the
Xinhua News Agency.
Manya Reiss died of cancer in Beijing and was buried at
the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.
