In 1848, a German economist declared that Russia’s rural communes would keep revolution from taking root. John Spargo answers with a century of conspirators, exiles, and forbidden words slipping past the Czar’s police. Writing in the early twentieth century, Spargo looks back across the Russian Empire, where hopes for reform repeatedly collided with autocracy and the desperate need for land. He follows the movement from the Decembrists’ failed revolt to Alexander Herzen’s years in exile, tracing how ideas passed from secret circles and censored pages to a restless people. The question is not only why revolution took hold, but whether the cause of political and industrial democracy could survive the struggle carried out in its name. What did those early rebels set in motion? With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.
