02684nam 2200601 450 991079092660332120230803221301.00-253-01394-1(CKB)2550000001279474(EBL)1680204(SSID)ssj0001193849(PQKBManifestationID)12448015(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001193849(PQKBWorkID)11147362(PQKB)10651319(MiAaPQ)EBC1680204(OCoLC)878405555(MdBmJHUP)muse37935(Au-PeEL)EBL1680204(CaPaEBR)ebr10864896(CaONFJC)MIL600680(EXLCZ)99255000000127947420140512h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe defiant life of Vera Figner surviving the Russian revolution /Lynne Ann HartnettBloomington, Indiana :Indiana University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (346 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-01284-8 1-306-69429-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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, LynWomen revolutionariesRussiaBiographyWomen socialistsRussiaBiographyWomen socialistsSoviet UnionBiographyWomen revolutionariesWomen socialistsWomen socialists335/.83092Hartnett Lynne Ann1528971MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790926603321The defiant life of Vera Figner3772954UNINA