Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism
by
Claudia Verhoeven
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg's Summer Garden and onto the boulevard, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and shot at the tsar. He missed, but his "unheard-of act" changed the course of Russian history-and gave birth to the revolutionary...