The ancestor : Radishchev
The decembrists : the secret societies
The decembrists : insurrection
The coasts of utopia
Freedom?
"Get your axes!"
"Men of the future"
Force and fraud
Populism
The children's crusade
Land and Liberty
The People's Will
Man hunt
Sic semper tyrannis
A pyrrhic victory
The agony of The People's Will

This book traces the history of revolutionary movements in nineteenth-century Russia, ending with the great famine of 1891 - 1892, by which time Marxism was already in the ascendant. The extraordinary story begins with the publication, in May 1790, of a book by Alexander Radishchev exposing the corruption and cruelty of the regime of the Empress Catherine and suggesting that the nation could well dispense with the throne. Coming as it did immediately after the French Revolution, Radishchev’s work caused much anxiety in court circles and set an example for the numerous secret societies that were to emerge in the 1830s and beyond. Two chapters of the book are devoted to the Decembrists, the first to take up arms against the autocracy in the 1800s. Other chapters describe the "children’s crusade" and the manhunt that culminated in the assassination of Alexander II. Avrahm Yarmolinsky (1890 - 197$) was Chief of the Slavonic Division of the New York Public Library and the author of numerous works, including "Turgenev : the Man, His Art, and His Age"

Radishchev, Alexander (1749 - 1802) \о нем\ - Russian author and social critic
People’s Will\о ней\
Народная воля (революционная организация)\о ней\