Revolutionary Exiles : The Russians in the First International and the Paris Commune

• This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. • Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.\ This book, first published in 1979, examines the little-studied forerunners of the Russian revolutionary movement - the Russian section of the First International. It looks at the social democratic and Marxist Russians in the International, as well as examining the complex relations between the terrorist Sergei Nechaev and Marx's friends, as well as tracing the activities of Michael Bakunin. It also analyses, for the first time in English, the activities of the Russian revolutionaries in the Paris Commune. It integrates early Russian social democracy into the larger context of European socialist and working-class movements. In 1864, the government censor Osip Antonovich Przhet-slavsky retired to his modest estate near Tver to tend his garden and study Freemasonry, a subject that had long fascinated him. Convinced as he was that Freemasons were in league not only with foreign revolutionary and socialist societies but also with terrorists inside Russia, Przhetslavsky spent several years compiling his suspicions, findings and conclusions into a work he called 'The Great Secret of the Freemasons.' He sent the manuscript to his former colleagues in St Petersburg First Published In 1979. Routledge Is An Imprint Of Taylor & Francis, An Informa Company. Education, Politics & IR, Sociology & Social Policy