Underground Petersburg: Radical Populism, Urban Space, and the Tactics of Subversion in Reform-Era Russia

by Christopher Ely

Book Overview

Although the radical populist movement that arose in Russia during the reign of Tsar Alexander II has been well documented, this important study opens with questions that haven't yet been addressed: How did Russian radical populists manage to carry out a three-year campaign of revolutionary violence, killing or wounding scores of people, including top government officials, and eventually taking the life of the tsar himself? And how did this all...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875807445
• ISBN13: 9780875807447
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher