born into the comforts of the russian aristocracy in 1852, vera figner as a child harbored the fairy-tale dream of one day becoming tsarina. but by the age of thirty-two, she was a leader of the underground organization narodnaya volya, sentenced for life in prison for assassinating tsar alexander ii.
in this abdriged translation of her autobiography, figner recounts her journey from aristocrat to revolutionary, candidly relating the experiences that shaped her ideas and provoked her to political action and violence. her reflections reveal much about the concept, structure, and leadership of the revolutionary socialist movement in late nineteenth-century russia.
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