Underground Russia. Revolutionary profiles and sketches from life

Stepniak.    London, Smith, Elder & Co.,  1883 First English Translation   8vo Contemporary half crimson roan and marbled boards, spine ruled and direct lettered gilt Rubbed, extremities worn, internally good  Sergei Mikhailovich Kravchinski (1852-95), pen name Stepniak, was a Russian revolutionary and writer. He fled Russia in 1878 after taking part in the assassination of the Czarist chief of police. His first book, Underground Russia (1882, translated 1883) was written in Italian and consisted of profiles of Russian revolutionaries.  

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