General Information

Author/Creator

Ulam, Adam B., 1922-2000

Language

English.

Published

New York : Viking Press, 1977.

Physical Description

xii, 418 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

More than a century ago, Russia saw the burgeoning of a tradition of revolutionary violence that was not to bear fruit until 1917, but that even in those earlier times deeply affected the Russian people. In this book, Adam Ulam offers a 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.

Subjects

Subject

Revolutionaries > Russia > Biography.

Russia > Politics and government > 1855-1881.

Russia > Intellectual life > 1801-1917.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Adam B. Ulam.

Content

Introduction: one shot -- I. Makers of the revolutionary world. 1. Nicholas Romanov -- 2. Alexander Herzen -- 3. The New Men and Chernyshevsky -- II. A revolutionary mystery story. 4. The birth of conspiracy -- 5. Land and freedom -- 6. Nihilism -- III. The possessed. 7. Hell -- 8. The prankster -- IV. The revolutionary crusade. 9. The quiet beast -- 10. Seeds of violence -- V. The triumph of revolutionary populism. 11. The year of choice -- 12. The birth of the people's will -- 13. The elegant and slender bombs -- VI. The fall. 14. After the gallows -- 15. Epilogue.

Library Special Collection

Donation of Anatole Shub

ISBN

0670396915

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	947.08 ULA		General Stacks	-

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