Volume 28, Number 4 · March 19, 1981
Mr. Possessed
By Aileen Kelly
Sergei Nechaev
by Philip Pomper
Rutgers University Press, 273 pp., $19.50
On a night in November 1869 a student called Ivan Ivanov, a member of a small cell of revolutionaries, was murdered by his fellow conspirators in a lonely park on the outskirts of Moscow. The leader of the group, Sergei Nechaev, subsequently escaped abroad, but police investigations into the crime uncovered a wide network of people associated with him. At their trial the prosecution produced a document written by Nechaev which caused a sensation. Known as 'The Catechism of a Revolutionary,' it has secured for its author a place in history.
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