The Defiant Life of Vera Figner: Surviving the Russian Revolution (Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology)

By: Lynne Ann Hartnett

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Synopsis: A &“riveting&” biography of a Russian noblewoman turned revolutionary terrorist and accomplice in the assassination of a tsar (The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review). 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, which she herself pursued as a medical student in Zurich, 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, Lynne Ann Hartnett reveals how Figner survived the Bolshevik revolution and Stalin's Great Purges and died a lionized revolutionary legend as the Nazis bore down on Moscow in 1942.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 352 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780253013941
Related ISBNs:: 9780253012845
Publisher:: Indiana University Press
Date of Addition:: 01/09/25
Copyrighted By:: Lynne Ann Hartnett
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.