Summary
Sergej Kravchinsky Stepnjak: Underground Russia
After a little over a hundred years, Underground Russia saw another domestic edition, making it available again as an important record and description of a period in the revolutionary history of Russia, but also of the world, because it was the events in Russia, as well as some of the actors of those events, that strongly influenced the development of anarchist ideas and their spread in the world.
Full title Underground Russia - revolutionary profiles and short stories from life, the book is divided in exactly that way - on the one hand, it provides an overview of revolutionary activity in a short period of time, which shows how in some cases a decade can have enormous significance. This was certainly the case in the lives of the nihilists that Sergej Stepnjak (real name Sergej Kravchinski, better known as Stepnjak) writes about, and as he himself was an active participant in those events, the story has more weight because it brings a rare view from the inside, where every boundary between the political and the personal, the author and the actor disappears, so there is no misinterpretation, and where it is clear that the Russian revolutionaries of that time thought about the political as a personal one a hundred years before that slogan appeared.
Book it talks about the period from 1870 to sometime in the middle of the next decade, describing the circumstances in which the struggle takes place, the different strategies that the revolutionary movement chooses or was imposed on it, it describes the repression of imperial Russia, but most importantly, it brings an insight into what kind of people these were really about.
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