Revolutionary Philanthropy: Aid to Political Prisoners and Exiles in Late Imperial Russia

by Stuart Finkel

In late nineteenth-century Russia, a series of organizations emerged from the nascent radical liberationist movement for the purposes of providing aid to political prisoners and exiles. Those leading these endeavors framed them as a philanthropic exercise that was paradoxically always also political, provocatively appropriating the name and humanitarian mission of the Red Cross for their illicit attempts to assist the enemies of the Tsarist state...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198916108
• ISBN13: 9780198916109
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.8"