there is much in the saga of the Russian revolutionary movement that will strike the contemporary reader as amazingly modern. But apart from any relevance it might have to our own problems., the story itself is intrinsically of the highest interest. It is little wonder that some of the most memorable works of Russian literature are based on true incidents in the struggle of a handful of men and women against the most powerful autocracy of the nineteenth century.
Anyone writing on this subject must acknowledge his debt to the indefattiogable labors of Russian historians of both the pre- and post-Revolution vintage, as well aas to such magisterial Western works as Franco Venturi`s Roots of Revolution. movement, revolution, vintage