1st Edition

Prophets and Conspirators in Prerevolutionary Russia

By Adam B. Ulam Copyright 1998
    450 Pages
    by Routledge

    452 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