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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790926603321

Autore

Hartnett Lynne Ann

Titolo

The defiant life of Vera Figner : surviving the Russian revolution / / Lynne Ann Hartnett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-253-01394-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Disciplina

335/.83092

Soggetti

Women revolutionaries - Russia

Women socialists - Russia

Women socialists - Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

In the twilight of a fading age -- Age of consciousness -- Pioneers diverted -- Town and country -- The tsar's death sentence -- Revolutionary iconography -- Transformation -- Life and death -- Resurrection in exile -- An old revolutionary in a new revolution -- Revolutionary survivor.

Sommario/riassunto

This engaging biography tells the dramatic story of a Russian noblewoman turned revolutionary terrorist. 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 a champion of populist causes and women's higher education, Figner later became a leader of the terrorist party the People's Will and was an accomplice in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881. Drawing on extensive archival research and careful reading of Figner's copious memoirs, Lyn