Renegades, rebels and rogues under the Tsars / Peter Julicher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Julicher, Peter, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political rights--Russia.

Political rights.

Russia--Politics and government.

Russia.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

x, 305 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2003]

Summary:

Described here are the activities of the most important dissidents and agitators from the reign of Ivan the Terrible to Nicholas II and the fall of the Romanovs in 1917. Some were fascinating individuals, serious activists, and some of the individuals covered were opportunistic scoundrels and adventurers. The author explores the causes that provoked them and the consequences they faced, and demonstrates that the tsars, time and again, were goaded into overreacting. The effects of this constant push and pull endured into the Communist era.

Contents:

1. Renegade Prince 7

2. The Great Pretender 23

3. Boyars, Cossacks, and More Pretenders 38

4. Mobs, Mutinies, and the Church Schism 57

5. Cossack Rebels and Renegades 76

6. Rebel Relatives and the Revolts of the Strel'tsy 106

7. Scheming Aristocrats

Palace Coups 132

8. Aristocratic Rebels: The Decembrists and Petrashevtsy 155

9. Nihilists, Nechaev, and the People's Will 182

10. Reaction, Rasputin, and Revolution 220.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-291) and index.

ISBN:

0786416122

OCLC:

52966188