ABSTRACT

In this magisterial and exciting book, Ulam offers a brilliant history of Russian political and intellectual life in those critical years from 1855 to 1884 and describes the successive conspiracies that shook the edifice of tsarist autocracy.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

One Shot

part I|5 pages

Makers of the Revolutionary World

chapter One|11 pages

Nicholas Romanov

chapter Two|22 pages

Alexander Herzen

chapter Three|16 pages

The New Men and Chernyshevsky

part II|5 pages

A Revolutionary Mystery Story

chapter Four|21 pages

The Birth of Conspiracy

chapter Five|20 pages

Land and Freedom

chapter Six|24 pages

Nihilism

part III|9 pages

The Possessed

chapter Seven|21 pages

Hell

chapter Eight|64 pages

The Prankster

part IV|66 pages

The Revolutionary Crusade

chapter Nine|31 pages

The Quiet Beast

chapter Ten|33 pages

Seeds of Violence

part V|2 pages

The Triumph of Revolutionary Populism

chapter Eleven|28 pages

The Year of Choice

chapter Twelve|29 pages

The Birth of the People’s Will

chapter Thirteen|31 pages

The Elegant and Slender Bombs

part VI|2 pages

The Fall

chapter Fourteen|31 pages

After the Gallows

chapter Fifteen|9 pages

Epilogue