Conspiracy Against the Tsar: A Portrait of the Decembrists
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1985. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Item #2290450
Jacket edges rubbed.
293, [3] pp. 8vo. Photographic endpapers. Includes section of black-and-white photographs. "In this book, the well-known Soviet historian Natan Eidelman describes Russia's first, aristocratic revolutionaries - the Decembrists, who staged an insurrection in 1825 against Tsar Nicholas I in an attempt to reform socio-economic life in Russia. The narrative focusses [sic] on a psychological portrait of the most prominent members of the Decembrist movement, on their subsequent fate, and the influence of their ideas and deeds on the generations that followed. Eidelman draws on a great deal of documentary evidence and attempts to follow the dialectics of historical interrelationships. His narrative style is lively and expressive."
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