Red Prelude: A Life Of A. I. Zhelyabov
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Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket – cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner inscription visible on frontispiece page. Binding condition: Binding appears intact and firm. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A gripping biographical account of one of 19th-century Russia's most formidable revolutionary figures, Red Prelude chronicles the life of Andrei Ivanovich Zhelyabov, the charismatic leader of the Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) movement that orchestrated the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881. David Footman presents a meticulously researched portrait of a man born a serf who rose to become the ideological and organisational backbone of Russian revolutionary terrorism. With authority and clarity, the narrative details the volatile political landscape of Tsarist Russia, tracing how Zhelyabov's radical convictions were forged through personal hardship and ideological awakening. Footman illustrates the paradoxes of a man who was both visionary and ruthless, placing his subject firmly within the wider story of Russia's turbulent path toward revolution. Written with the precision of a historian and the narrative drive of a storyteller, this biography remains an essential study of 19th-century Russian radicalism.
Author: David Footman
Format: Hardback
Published: 1944, The Cresset Press
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket – cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner inscription visible on frontispiece page. Binding condition: Binding appears intact and firm. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A gripping biographical account of one of 19th-century Russia's most formidable revolutionary figures, Red Prelude chronicles the life of Andrei Ivanovich Zhelyabov, the charismatic leader of the Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) movement that orchestrated the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881. David Footman presents a meticulously researched portrait of a man born a serf who rose to become the ideological and organisational backbone of Russian revolutionary terrorism. With authority and clarity, the narrative details the volatile political landscape of Tsarist Russia, tracing how Zhelyabov's radical convictions were forged through personal hardship and ideological awakening. Footman illustrates the paradoxes of a man who was both visionary and ruthless, placing his subject firmly within the wider story of Russia's turbulent path toward revolution. Written with the precision of a historian and the narrative drive of a storyteller, this biography remains an essential study of 19th-century Russian radicalism.