- Gebundene Ausgabe: 370 Seiten
- Verlag: St Martins Pr; Auflage: First. (18. März 2008)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0312363990
- ISBN-13: 978-0312363994
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 24,1 x 16 x 4,1 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 671.534 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"Siljak presents a history of Vera Zasulich...in an engaging, fluid style. Readers receive a full portrait of a woman who wanted nothing more than to become a martyr for her cause but instead became a national symbol and celebrity, praised by members of all social classes in Russia and known worldwide."--"Library Journal"
""Angel of Vengeance" has tremendous narrative drive, combined with an epic, Tolstoyan scope....Pre-revolutionary Russia's contradictions, its freedoms and constraints, are superbly drawn. Such deftness is rare in an academic historian. So too is the author's sense of humour. "Angel of Vengeance" is a very good book."--"Globe and Mail"
"This is a terrific book, retracing the tragic and contradictory course of nineteenth-century Populism through the life-story of Russia's first female assassin, Vera Zasulich. Siljak's fluent narrative lives and breathes the passions and the painful contradictions of Russian life. Zasulich, born into the conscience-stricken gentr
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In the winter of 1878, a shy noblewoman, Vera Zasulich, walked up to the governor of St. Petersburg, pulled a revolver from underneath her shawl and shot him point blank. "Revenge!" she cried, for the governor's brutal treatment of a political prisoner. Her trial that year became Russia's "trial of the century," closely followed across Europe and America; the Russian courtroom filled with the cream of Russian society. Vera became a celebrated martyr to all Russian social classes and a public face of the burgeoning revolutionary fervour.Dostoyevsky (who attended the trial), Oscar Wilde, and Turgenev all wrote about her case. Her astonishing acquittal was cheered across Europe and marked the changing face of Russia. Vera became Russia's most famous "terroristka," inspiring a generation of revolutionaries to embrace violence and martyrdom, culminating in the assassination of Alexander II in 1881. In the forgotten story of Russia's most notorious terrorist, Ana Siljak captures Vera's extraordinary life story - from child of nobility to revolutionary conspirator to assassin and then saint - all the while offering a vivid window into the fiery political upheaval of Russia.
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Angel of Vengeance
20. April 2008
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I recently finished reading Angel of Vengeance by Ana Siljak. The story was rich with vivid descriptions of the life of the Russian people, those oppressed, the privileged, and those who endeavored to change the status quo. In light of events in the world today, I was intrigued with the background given on the various radical groups that attempted to engage the peasants to overthrow the government. Intertwined with all of this is the fascinating personal story of a young woman. The journey documented in the book of Vera Zasulich's internal outrage toward public officials, the validation of her feelings gleaned from her veracious readings of radical publications and her interactions with infamous terrorists, to her decision to act on her own and assassinate the governor is a winning combination. The unintended consequences of her actions extend the story to show us the impact she had on the world and individuals already familiar to us such as Oscar Wilde. This book is educational, thought provoking and very entertaining.
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Excellent Study of Key Moment in Pre-Revolutionary Russia
9. April 2008
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Ana Siljak's "Angel of Vengeance" is proof positive that every once in awhile, an extraordinarily talented academic historian can breathe life into a long-dead era and make it accessible to an audience far broader than his or her professional peers. This book is an absolute gem, impeccably researched, engagingly written with a narrative style that reflects the tensions and drama of her subject matter. The book chronicles the first act in the "Age of Assassinations," when an aristocratic woman with revolutionary sentiments killed the governor of St. Petersburg with a revolver she'd concealed under her clothing. Her subsequent trial became a spectacle, the pre-revolutionary Russian equivalent of the Lindberg trial of the 1930's. The assassination and trial became one of the keystone moments that fueled the revolutionary fever which ultimately toppled the Tzar's regime a few decades later.
Siljak has done an outstanding job of blending craft and research into a highly readable, fascinating snapshot of late-nineteenth century Russia. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
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Siljak has done an outstanding job of blending craft and research into a highly readable, fascinating snapshot of late-nineteenth century Russia. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
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Splendid book, masterful, very highly recommended
19. November 2011
I have read a lot of Russian revolutionary history, but no other book that comes close to this one in supplying profound insight into the "to the people" movement of the late 19th century that set the stage for Russia's 1905 and 1917 upheavals. Particularly lucid are the explanations of the roles of a few extremely influential 19th century writers in steering the movement. My interest piqued, I am reading Chernyshevshy's "What Is To Be Done" [...] now. Historians too often cite these works in passing, without explaining just what messages were conveyed, and precisely why they so impressed young Russians. The tragic end of the movement, in a campaign of assassination and terrorism, and one generation later Leninism, makes its history highly relevant still. The subject matter is serious and in large part philosophical. Yet Siljak's account is written in an engaging style, replete with interesting anecdotes, and the way she keeps the focus on Vera Zasulich and a few of her contemporaries as living, breathing people (who were, for the most part, in their way, well-intentioned) makes for a fun read. A film adaptation would not be difficult!
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