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Description: Two book set. The first book is "Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar". The Memoirs of five young anarchist women of the 1870's edited and translated from the Russian for the first time by Barbara Alpern Engel and Clifford N. Rosenthal. Published by Knopf 1975 first edition. Hardcover. First American Edition. New condition in a new dust jacket. Dust jacket has a tiny price sticker on the cover. 265 pages including a detailed index Jacket design by Anita Siegel. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Russia in the 1870's and 1880's. The five young women revolutionaries revealed in these extraordinary memoirs (newly discovered and published in English for the first time) are intensely individual. But they are alike in the absolute purity of their idealism, their fierce courage, their simplicity and in their reserves of immense strength which, inflamed by their perception of the suffering, slavery, and vast economic exploitation around them, drove them to armed terrorism. Who were they-these young women, in their late teens and early twenties, who turned against their upbringing and their government and toward revolutionary action in passionate pursuit of social justice? Vera Figner, daughter of a well-to-do forester, abandoning her long-dreamed-of medical career-the diploma almost in her grasp-to ‘go to the people' as a paramedic. tunneling by night with her comrades to lay mines along a route the Tsar might take. Elizaveta Kovalskaia, independently organizing 700 workers dedicated to ‘economic terror". organizing a school for women workers. organizing her fellow prisoners after her arrest in hunger strikes to protest conditions. She was the illegitimate daughter of a nobleman who acknowledged and educated her.Printed on high quality paper. Free tracking on all USA orders. Hardback book with no shelf wear, no remainder marks, and not price clipped. Selling for over $50.00 on many sites in this condition. This is a fascinating book! The second book is "Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus" published by Basic Books 2010 first edition first printing. 528 pages. Dimensions: 9.1". x 6.1"". Part travelogue, part history, "Let Our Fame Be Great" tells the stories of the forgotten peoples of the Caucasus region, an incredible cultural crossroads where Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Turkey and the Middle East meet. The area was once the home of the Golden Fleece and Prometheus place of exile, and later inspired Pushkin and Lermontov, but its rich history has been overshadowed by decades of guerrilla warfare. Now, it is better known to us for the struggle in Chechnya and the 2008 war between Georgia and Russia. Traveling through history and throughout this tumultuous region, journalist and Russia expert Oliver Bullough details the major events from nineteenth-century Tsarist expansionism to the modern day struggles in Chechnya and South Ossetia. Events that have shaped this fascinating land and its people: the Chechens, Nogais, Circassians, mountain Turks, and Ingush who have been consistently besieged and woefully overlooked for nearly two hundred years. A powerful account of a people and their struggle to survive. This book is in new condition with no shelf wear or remainder marks. Highly recommended.

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