The Degaev Affair Terror And Treason In Tsarist Russia Pipes by Pipes, Richard 9780300098488, 0300098480 instant download after payment.

A committed terrorist in Russia, an admired professor in America: the
astounding story of Sergei Degaev’s double life, told in full detail
for the first time
Sergei Degaev (1857–1921), a political
terrorist in tsarist Russia, disappeared after participating in the
assassination of the chief of Russia’s security organization in 1883.
Those who later knew and admired the quietly brilliant Professor
Alexander Pell at the University of South Dakota never guessed this was
actually Degaev, who had triple-crossed friends and associates while
entangled in the revolutionary movement of his homeland. This book is
the first in any language to tell in detail the extraordinary story of
one of the world’s most intriguing revolutionaries, his role in building
and betraying the earliest political terrorist network, and his
subsequent conventional academic career in America.
The
well-known historian Richard Pipes uses previously unexplored Russian
archives to draw a brilliant psychological, political, and sociological
portrait of Degaev. Pipes pursues his protagonist on a twisting journey
of changing loyalties and fateful collaborations within the network that
provided the model for all modern terrorist organizations. A cunning
conspirator, Degaev went on to reinvent himself in the United States as a
beloved mathematics professor. Either of his lives would be considered
remarkable; that Degaev lived both is nothing short of amazing.