Stuart Finkel

Revolutionary Philanthropy (eBook, ePUB)

Aid to Political Prisoners and Exiles in Late Imperial Russia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first book in any language to provide a comprehensive portrait of the origins of aid to political prisoners and exiles in late nineteenth-century Russia, showing how a series of aid organizations emerged from the nascent radical liberationist movement of the 1870s-80s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198916123
• Artikelnr.: 72242042

Autorenporträt

Stuart Finkel is Associate Professor of Russian Studies and Affiliate Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College. He previously taught in the History Department at the University of Florida in Gainesville and received his PhD from Stanford University. He is the author of On the Ideological Front: The Russian Intelligentsia and the Making of the Soviet Public Sphere and numerous articles and book chapters. He is currently engaged in a multibook project on the history of support for political prisoners and exiles in Russia and the Soviet Union from the nineteenth century to the present, of which this book is the first part.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction * PART I
PRECEDENTS AND ORIGINS * One: From Charity to Subversion: The Deep Roots of Aid to Prisoners and Exiles * Two: Outrage and Empathy: Revolutionary Philanthropy and the Origins of a Political "Red Cross" * PART II
THE REVOLUTIONARY UNDERGROUND * Three: Terror and Philanthropy: The Rise and Fall of the Red Cross of the People's Will * Four: Time Once Again: The Curious Persistence of Political Aid across the Russian Empire * PART III
ÉMIGRÉS AND FOREIGN PUBLICS * Five: Political Philanthropy Goes Abroad: The "Foreign Branch" of the Red Cross of the People's Will * Six: Russian Émigrés and Western Sympathizers through the 1880s * Epilogue and Conclusion