Richard Pipes - The Trial of Vera Zasulich

[Ivo Romein]

Published today:

 

"THE TRIAL OF VERA Z."

 

by Richard Pipes

 

 

A special issue of <Russian History>

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Introduction

 

ONE --- Trouble in prison 

Russia in the late nineteenth century - Kazan Square demonstration

and arrest of Bogoliubov - House of Preliminary Detention -

Vera Zasulich - Her road to the revolutionary movement -

 

TWO --- Trepov shot 

Vera Zasulich's terrorist act - Government decision to have her

tried by a jury - Russian juries -

 

THREE --- The trial 

Public anticipation - The jury acquits Vera Zasulich -

Possible reasons for the acquittal - Zasulich vanishes -

 

FOUR --- Repercussions 

Effect on the government - Effects on the revolutionaries -

Turgenev, Chicherin, Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde - Zasulich's

life after her flight abroad

 

 

 

Russian History, volume 37, issue 1 (2010)

more information on www.brill.nl

 

 

 

 


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