The Degaev Affair / Richard R. Glejzer, Michael Bernard-Donals.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pipes, Richard.

Contributor:

Bernard-Donals, Michael, Editor.

Glejzer, Richard R., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Degaev, Sergeĭ, 1857-1921.

Degaev, Sergeĭ.

Narodnai︠a︡ voli︠a︡ (Political party : Russia)--Biography.

Narodnai︠a︡ voli︠a︡ (Political party : Russia).

Revolutionaries--Russia--Biography.

Revolutionaries.

Terrorism--Russia.

Terrorism.

Subversive activities--Russia.

Subversive activities.

Informers--Russia.

Informers.

Internal security--Russia.

Internal security.

Russia--History--Alexander III, 1881-1894.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1989]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book tells for the first time the extraordinary story of Sergei Degaev, a political terrorist in tsarist Russia who disappeared after participating in the assassination of the chief of Russia's security organization in 1883. Those who knew and admired Alexander Pell at the University of South Dakota never guessed that he was actually Degaev, a revolutionary who had reinvented himself as a quiet mathematics professor."An amazing story, part Dostoevsky, part Conrad. . . . Remarkable."-Michael J. Ybarra, Wall Street Journal"One of the most distinguished historians of Russia . . . [gives] us a real-life thriller that is also a cautionary tale rich with insight into depths of the human psyche."-David Pryce-Jones, Commentary"Absorbing, brilliantly researched. . . . [A] fascinating display of scholarly detective work."-Raymond Carr, Spectator"Pipes is the finest historian of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russia. . . . [His] Degaev Affair takes the reader through the dark and terrifying alleyways of the historical underworld. As a story, it ranks as a true-life version of Conrad's Under Western Eyes."-Nikolai Tolstoy, Literary Review "A brilliant history of treason, deception, terror, and academe in the underworld of Imperial Russia and the respectability of midwestern U.S. universities."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Financial Times "Fascinating."-Orlando Figes, New York Review of Books

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Chapter One: Alexander Pell

Chapter Two: Sergei Degaev

Chapter Three: Lieutenant Colonel Sudeikin

Chapter Four: The Police Run the Revolution

Chapter Five: Sudeikin's Murder

Epilogue

Appendix

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300159394

0300159390

OCLC:

1024024801