Author: Savinkov, Boris Viktorovic [1879-1925]
Title: Aus den Erinnerungen eines Terroristen / Boris Sawinkow
Description: München, Musarion-Verlag, 1919. orig. wrappers. 16x12cm, 43 pp. Wrappers fragile. Rubberstamps to title verso. "Berechtigte Übersetzung aus dem russischen Manuskript".. Spine label. Wrappers heavily torn & chipped. Fair condition. ¶ ["Savinkov was a Russian writer and revolutionary. As one of the leaders of the Fighting Organisation of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, he was responsible for the assassinations of several high-ranking imperial officials in 1904 and 1905....Savinkov emigrated in 1920, but in 1924 he made an endeavour to return to the Soviet Union, was arrested and either was killed in prison or committed suicide.... In 1901 he was arrested and sent to exile to Vologda. He served the exile with some prominent Russian intellectuals including Nikolai Berdyaev and Anatoly Lunacharsky. However he became disappointed with Marxism and shifted to terrorism. In 1903 Savinkov escaped abroad and joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party, where he soon became Deputy Head of its Combat Organization under Yevno Azef. For his assassination of Russian Minister of Interior Vyacheslav von Plehve and participation in the assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, he was arrested in 1906 and sentenced to death. However, he managed to escape from his prison cell in Odessa and found refuge in exile. When Azef was revealed as an agent of the Okhrana in 1908,Savinkov became the head of the Fighting Organization... He returned to Russia in April 1917, several months after the February Revolution, and in July became Deputy War Minister under Alexander Kerensky. However, on 30 August he resigned from the government and was expelled from the Socialist Revolutionary Party due to his role in the uprising of General Kornilov in September 1917...." - wikipedia].

Keywords: Russian Political History, Tsarist Russia, Socialist, Revolutionary, Party, 1917 Revolution, Socialism, Terrorism,