Memoirs of a Terrorist by Boris Savinkov

A New Translation

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvJonathan Daly,Scott Smith,Boris Savinkov

709 kr

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Early 20th-century Russia suffered frequent revolutionary violence, including many bouts of political terrorism. As a leader of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party's Combat Organization, Boris Savinkov helped organize and execute a series of notorious attacks, including two bomb blasts that killed senior officials in 1904 and 1905. During his various periods of exile and imprisonment, Savinkov also wrote fiction and memoirs describing the methods and operations of Russia's revolutionary terrorists and exploring problems with the representation of violence, the ethics of terrorism, and the subjective world of the terrorists themselves.Drawing on an unpublished introduction and annotations that Savinkov wrote in a Soviet prison in 1924, Jonathan Daly and Scott B. Smith have prepared an exciting new translation of the most detailed personal account—written in 1909 but first published in 1917—by a Russian revolutionary terrorist. The editors have preserved the matter-of-fact style of the original text, which juxtaposes violence and chaos with businesslike pragmatism as Savinkov recounts how he joined the Combat Organization, recruited assassins, and planned and carried out attacks.With a thorough introduction and detailed textual notes and commentary, "Memoirs of a Terrorist" by Boris Savinkov is a captivating read for general readers and specialists alike.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-11-03
Mått156 x 235 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska, Ryska
Antal sidor378
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253076670

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Jonathan Daly is Professor of History at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is author most recently of Seven Myths of the Russian Revolution and The Rise of Western Power: A Comparative History of Western Civilization.Scott B. Smith (1963–2017) was Professor of History at Linfield University. He is author of Captives of Revolution: The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, 1918–1923.

"This timely and authoritative translation joins a burgeoning field of research on Russian revolutionary terrorism, complementing recent biographies and critical analyses of Savinkov and his contemporaries. The first English edition of the memoir in nearly a century, it arrives with considerable scholarly weight."—Lonny Harrison, author of Personas of Revolutionary Terror in Russian Fiction and Memoirs from Dostoevsky to Zenzinov"The autocratic Russian Empire was fertile ground for political terrorists. Boris Savinkov is one of the best known with an extraordinarily colorful history as terrorist, intrigant, writer, poet, and memoirist. The present memoir of Savinkov, newly translated and meticulously annotated, is a delightful read on a grim subject for both serious and casual readers as well as for professional historians."—Hiroaki Kuromiya