1st Edition

Prophets and Conspirators in Prerevolutionary Russia

By Adam B. Ulam Copyright 1998
450 Pages
by Routledge

452 Pages
by Routledge

418 Pages
by Routledge

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.

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

Biography

Adam B. Ulam