Prophets and Conspirators in Prerevolutionary Russia

ISBN-13: 9780765804433 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 450 str.

Adam Bruno Ulam

Opis

In this magisterial and exciting book, Ulam offers a brilliant history of Russian political and intellectual life in those critical years from 1855 to 1884 and describes the successive conspiracies that shook the edifice of tsarist autocracy.

Spis treści

Introduction; I: Makers of the Revolutionary World; One: Nicholas Romanov; Two: Alexander Herzen; Three: The New Men and Chernyshevsky; II: A Revolutionary Mystery Story; Four: The Birth of Conspiracy; Five: Land and Freedom; Six: Nihilism; III: The Possessed; Seven: Hell; Eight: The Prankster; IV: The Revolutionary Crusade; Nine: The Quiet Beast; Ten: Seeds of Violence; V: The Triumph of Revolutionary Populism; Eleven: The Year of Choice; Twelve: The Birth of the People’s Will; Thirteen: The Elegant and Slender Bombs; VI: The Fall; Fourteen: After the Gallows; Fifteen: Epilogue

O autorze

Adam B. Ulam