The defiant life of Vera Figner : surviving the Russian revolution / / Lynne Ann Hartnett
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| Autore: |
Hartnett Lynne Ann
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| Titolo: |
The defiant life of Vera Figner : surviving the Russian revolution / / Lynne Ann Hartnett
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| Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 335/.83092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women revolutionaries - Russia |
| Women socialists - Russia | |
| Women socialists - Soviet Union | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The defiant life of Vera Figner |
| ISBN: | 0-253-01394-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790926603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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