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dc.contributor.authorHughes, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-08T11:20:18Z
dc.date.available2024-07-08T11:20:18Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/91251
dc.description.abstractFeliks Volkhovskii (1846-1914) was a significant figure in the Russian revolutionary movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He lived through pivotal changes ranging from the rise of ‘nihilism’ in the 1860s and the growth of populism in the 1870s, through to the creation of the Socialist Revolutionary Party in the early 1900s. Imprisoned three times before he turned thirty, he spent ten years in Siberian exile before fleeing abroad to join the fight against tsarist autocracy from western Europe. Following Volkhovskii’s arrival in Britain in 1890, he played a central role in the campaign to win sympathy for the Russian revolutionary movement, editing newspapers and journals including Free Russia. He also helped to smuggle propaganda into Russia as well as becoming one of the most prominent figures in the émigré leadership of the Socialist Revolutionaries. Throughout his life, Volkhovskii was also a prolific writer of poetry and short stories, and was on good terms with many leading literary figures of the time including Ford Maddox Ford and Edward and Constance Garnett. Michael Hughes’s groundbreaking new biography provides a vivid history of this notable but hitherto neglected figure of both the political and literary worlds. Based on ten years of research in archives across the world and drawing on sources in multiple languages, this masterful biography explores how Volkhovskii’s life illuminates broader intellectual and historical questions about the Russian revolutionary movement. It is essential reading for anyone interested in late Imperial Russia and the Russian revolution.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHQ History of other geographical groupings and regionsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: generalen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticismen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relationsen_US
dc.subject.otherFeliks Volkhovskii (1846-1914);Russian revolutionary movement;Siberian exile;Socialist Revolutionary Party;Russian émigrés in England;Imperial Russiaen_US
dc.titleFeliks Volkhovskiien_US
dc.title.alternativeA Revolutionary Lifeen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.11647/OBP.0385en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8ben_US
oapen.relation.isFundedBy9f66fd3d-0360-4671-abc3-429ac1cd1ae1*
oapen.relation.isbn9781805111948en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781805111955en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781805111979en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781805111993en_US
oapen.pages356en_US
oapen.place.publicationCambridgeen_US


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