Portraits of Russian personalities between reform and revolution / Richard Hare
1959, 1st Edition. London; New York: Oxford University Press. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Ex-library copy. Item #359229
Physical description: viii, 360 pages: portraits; 23 cm. Contents: A plebeian conservative of the reform period, A.V. Nikitenko -- An aristocratic anarchist, Michael Bakunin -- Ivan Turgenev -- F.M. Dostoyevsky -- The young Leo Tolstoy -- Tolstoy after War and peace -- Representative Narodniks -- Three religious-minded intellectuals -- Three thinking statesmen -- Peter Kropotkin. Subjects: Revolutionaries Russia; Biography. Authors, Russian 19th century; Biography. Social reformers Soviet Union. Social sciences History Soviet Union.
Price: €48.00