Five sisters: Women against the Tsar

An account of the Russian revolutionary movement of the 1870s, from the translated memoirs of five young women who participated: "Vera Figner", whose account of her evolution from liberal to radical is timeless; "Vera Zasulich", who tried to assassinate the governor of St Petersburg, setting off the terrorist phase of the movement; "Olga Liubatovich", who provides an account of daily life in the movement and its personal consequences; "Praskovia Ivanovskaia", who escaped from a Siberian prison to work with the Socialist Revolutionary Party; and "Elizaveta Kovalskaia", one of the few revolutionaries of peasant background, a pioneering organizer in the South of Russia.