| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
xxxiii, 482 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [447]-462) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue : this thing of darkness -- A distant horizon -- Communards -- From prince to anarchist -- Around the world in 280 days -- To the people -- Forward! -- Propaganda by deed -- Spies and tsaricides -- Inconvenient guests -- Voices in the fog -- The holy brotherhood -- A great new tide -- The making of the martyrs -- Decadence and degeneration -- The revolution is postponed -- Deep cover -- The Russian memorandum -- Dynamite in the city of light -- Wicked laws -- The mysteries of Bourdin and the baron -- A time of harmony -- Conspirary theories -- Agents unmasked -- War and revolution -- Coda. |
| Summary |
"The World That Never Was" is a thrilling history of the rise of anarchism, told through the stories of several violent revolutionaries and the secret police who pursued them. |
| Subject |
Anarchism -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780375425110 |
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037542511X |
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