1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996397541303316

Autore

Some Robert <1542-1609.>

Titolo

A godly and shorte treatise of the sacraments [[electronic resource] /] / vvritten by Robert Some

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Imprinted at London, : For Geo. Bish., 1582

Descrizione fisica

[92] p

Soggetti

Sacraments - Church of England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Colophon imprint: Imprinted at London at the Three Cranes in the Vintree, by Thomas Dawson, for George Byshoppe. 1582.

Signatures: A-E⁸ F⁶.

Title within ornamental border; initials.

Bound with an incomplete copy of STC 16814.5 following.

Imperfect: stained, and with print show-through.

Reproductions of original in the British Library (same copy filmed twice).

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458585203321

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

Electronic books.

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