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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1986. Martin A. Miller, author of the definitive biography of the exiled revolutionary Peter Kropotkin, traces the history of the first generations of Russians who went to Western Europe to devote their lives to anti-tsarist politics. Refusing to assimilate abroad and unable to return home, the emigres political orientations were influenced by intellectual and social currents in both Russia and Europe. Miller undertakes a major reassessment of the emigre contribution to the Russian revolutionary movement. Starting with Nikolai Turgenev, who in 1825 was declared the first emigre by a special act of the Russian government, the exiles formed a unique social and political group. Miller takes a biographical approach in tracing the progression from a disparate community of intellectuals, unable to act together to promote their own program for change, to a more cohesive second emigre generation that provided the foundation for collective action and the development of a
Trade ReviewAn interesting and well-written book that illuminates the career of a group of significant, yet previously little known Russian radicals.
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American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Part I. The First Generation
Chapter 1. The World of Emigration in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Chapter 2. N.I. Turgenev: The First Political Emigre
Chapter 3. I.G. Golovin: Emigre Individualism
Chapter 4. N.I. Sazonov: Marx's First Russian Follower
Chapter 5. P.V. Dolgorukov: The Republican Prince
Chapter 6. Perspectives on the First Generation
Part II. The Second Generation
Chapter 7. The Origins of Collective Action Abroad
Chapter 8. A. A. Semo-Solov' evich: Beyond Herzen
Chapter 9. On the Eve: Toward the Development of Ideology
Chapter 10. N. I. Utin: Emigre Internationalism
Part III. The Turning Point
Chapter 11. The Russian Emigre Press: In the Shadows of Kolokol
Chapter 12. The Emigration and Revolution
Appendixes
A. Regulations for the Aid of Political Exiles from Russia, 13 December 1855 (Geneva)
B. Police Surveillance at Herzen's House in London, 1862
C. The League of Peace and Freedom, 1867-1868
D. Natalie Herzen's Dream, 1869
Notes
Bibliography
Index
