Rebelling against the world
Book Review: Alex Butterworth, 'The World that Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents'. New York: Pantheon Press, 2010.
“THE TERRORIST IS NOBLE, irresistibly fascinating, for he combines in himself the two sublimates of human grandeur: the martyr and the hero” (127). The man who spoke these words was Sergei Kravchinsky, the Tsarist officer turned anarchist who went on to assassinate the chief of the Russia’s secret police and expose that country’s autocracy before the world in the best-selling book Underground Russia. Terrorism was not restricted to Russia’s early revolutionary movement.
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