Category: Biography Publisher: East European Monographs
ISBN-10: 0880332131
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 540
Copyright: Jan 1 1991
A biography of Boris Savinkov (1879-1925)who began his political career as a revolutionary terrorist plotting the assassination of Tsar Nicholas II and ended it, under questionable circumstances, in a Soviet prison. In between he plotted coups and led insurgent armies driven by a Mapoleonic desire to make himself ruler of Russia. Among his collaborators in his blood feud with Lenin's bolshevik regime were Ace-of-Spies Sidney Reilly and Winston Churchill.
Excerpt
"Boris Savinkov, the future revolutionary, terrorist, and political adventurer was born a son of the Russian nobility. While this fact hardly makes him unique, it does hint at the underlying paradoxes that make Savinkov one of the most individual and enigmatic figures of the revolutionaty era."
This book has been eight years in the making. It is mostly a jumble of thoughts written down in old spiral notebooks and hidden in the bottom drawer underneath various manuals for software packages and hardware long since turned obsolete.
