The Revolutionary Movement in Russia: Reprinted From the "New York Herald" With Notes and Preface (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Revolutionary Movement in Russia: Reprinted From the "New York Herald" With Notes and Preface

These reasons induced the editor, though he is not a nihilist him self, to reprint what seemed to him the clearest and ablest statement about the revolutionary party in Russia that has yet appeared in the English language. For obvious reasons, the editor is unable to give the name of the gentleman whose remarks furnish the text of this publica tion. Should, however, any information on the subject be desired which.

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Excerpt from The Revolutionary Movement in Russia: Reprinted From the "New York Herald" With Notes and Preface

The following pages contain a statement of the aims and methods of the "nihilists," by which they themselves are willing to be judged. A lamentable misapprehension prevails among Americans as to the men and women who are sacrificing their social position, their friends, their homes, - their all, to freeing their country from despotic rule. The very word "nihilist" is a misrepresentation. The members of the revolutionary party in Russia do not call themselves nihilists; nor does the government in its numerous indictments against the revolutionists speak of them under that name. Revolutionists they call themselves, revolutionists they are called by the government, and revolutionists they wish to be called by the world. It is true that Michael Bakunin and his handful of followers were nihilists pure and simple, - destroyers. But such nihilism never convulsed a nation, never shook a throne propped by 750,000 muskets! Negation alone is no more powerful in politics than in religion. Hence Bakunin could count his followers on his fingers. The present war to the knife did not need "nihilistic" teachings to make it desperate. The government alone put the dagger and the bomb into the hand of outraged manhood. Violence was resorted to by the revolutionists only after the government had literally tortured to death thousands of noble men and women solely for leaving their luxurious homes in order to go into the factories to educate the ignorant masses. For this crime were imprisoned by Prince Krapotkin alone several hundred students, half of whom became insane from ill-treatment in prison, and many of whom at last died.

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