Revolutionary philanthropy : aid to political prisoners and exiles in late imperial Russia / Stuart Finkel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finkel, Stuart, 1970- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutionaries--Russia--History--19th century.

Revolutionaries.

Political prisoners--Russia--History--19th century.

Political prisoners.

Humanitarian assistance--Russia--History--19th century.

Humanitarian assistance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

The first book in any language to provide a comprehensive portrait of the origins of aid to political prisoners and exiles in late nineteenth-century Russia, showing how a series of aid organizations emerged from the nascent radical liberationist movement of the 1870s-80s.

Contents:

Cover

Revolutionary Philanthropy : Aid to Political Prisoners and Exiles in Late Imperial Russia

Copyright

Contents

Preface

List of Maps

Terms and Abbreviations

Introduction

Looking Backward: The Genesis of Aid to Political Prisoners

Origins of Forms and Practices of Aid

Political Philanthropy or Revolutionary Humanitarianism

Outline

PART I: Precedents and Origins: The Deep Roots of Aid to Prisoners and Exiles

1: From Charity to Subversion: The Deep Roots of Aid to Prisoners and Exiles

Prison Philanthropy in the Early 1800s

The Heroic Exile in the House of the Dead

The Radicalization of Mutual Aid

The Stillborn First Child: The Curious History of the Vspomogatel'nyi Fond

2: Outrage and Empathy: Revolutionary Philanthropy and the Origins of a Political "Red Cross"

The Red Cross as Model and Foil

The Origins of a "Political" Red Cross

Building Support: Empathy and Justice

Administrative Exile and Liberal Public Opinion

PART II: The Revolutionary Underground: The Rise and Fall of the Red Cross of the People's Will

3: Terror and Philanthropy: The Rise and Fall of the Red Cross of the People's Will

Before the Cataclysm

The "Siberian Red Cross"

The Short Ascendancy of the Red Cross of the People's Will

The KKNV's Rapid Downfall

The Red Cross of the Polish Proletariat

Beyond the Red Cross of the People's Will

4: Time Once Again: The Curious Persistence of Political Aid across the Russian Empire

Prisoner Aid in Moscow after the Demise of the KKNV

The Petersburg OPPSiZ after the Blue Cross

Provincial Aid Groups through the 1880s

PART II: Émigrés and Foreign Publics: The "Foreign Branch" of the Red Cross of the People's Will

5: Political Philanthropy Goes Abroad: The "Foreign Branch" of the Red Cross of the People's Will

Turning to the Outside for Help

Grandiose Plans for Amelioration

Establishing a Red Cross Abroad

Publicity, Reprisals, and Disappointment

6: Russian Émigrés and Western Sympathizers through the 1880s

The Anarchist Prince Barnstorms Britain

Small Accounts but Broadened Reach

The Arrest of Kropotkin and Efforts Redirected

The End (of the Beginning) of the "Foreign Branch"

A Posthumous Italian Coda

Epilogue and Conclusion

Philanthropic Subterfuge as Liminal Activity

One and Many (Political) Red Crosses

The Legacy of Help from Afar

Appendix 1: Outline of Selected Domestic Groups and Organizations to Aid Political Prisoners and Exiles, late 1870s to early 1890s

Informal "Red Cross" Groups, Mid-1870s to 1881

Society of the Red Cross of the People's Will ( Krasnyi krest narodnoi voli, KKNV)

Moscow (Center)

St. Petersburg

Tomsk (aka Siberian Red Cross)

Kazan

Odesa

Krasnoiarsk

Irkutsk

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 21, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-891613-2

OCLC:

1434590927