Lynne Ann Hartnett

The Defiant Life of Vera Figner

Surviving the Russian Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Born in 1852 in the last years of serfdom, Vera Figner came of age as Imperial Russian society was being rocked by the massive upheaval that culminated in the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. At first champion of populist causes and champion of women's higher education, Figner later became a leader of the terrorist party The People's Will.

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Lynne Ann Hartnett is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Russian Area Studies at Villanova University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780253012845
• ISBN-10: 0253012848
• Artikelnr.: 39088610

Autorenporträt

Lynne Ann Hartnett is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Russian Area Studies at Villanova University.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents1. In the Twilight of a Fading Age 2. Age of Consciousness
3. Pioneers Diverted 4. Town and Country 5. The Tsar's Death Sentence 6.
Revolutionary Iconography 7. Transformation 8. Life and Death 9.
Resurrection in Exile 10. An Old Revolutionary in a New Revolution 11.
Revolutionary Survivor