Russian Emigrant Book. Kalendar Narodnoi Voli na 1898, illust., Geneva, in Russian, Rare!

Narodnaya Volya calendar for 1898; with the attachment of two photographic groups. - Geneva, 1898, 18 pp, 183 pp.,

Insert with portraits of members of "Narodaya Volya" on two pages.

Printed in an illegal printing house in Geneva The book was banned in the Russian Empire.

A special calendar where data from the trials of the populists and a description of their escapes from hard labor are noted; assassination attempts on kings, ministers and gendarmes, etc. date refers to the activities of this organization

Hard cover (rebound), original soft cover is not saved, 16 x 11.5 cm.

Condition: ex-library stamp; brown paper and foxing stains to some pages; track of moth to corner of first pages.

Narodnaya Volya (Russian: Наро́дная во́ля, lit. 'People's Will') was a late 19th-century revolutionary socialist political organization operating in the Russian Empire, which conducted assassinations of government officials in an attempt to overthrow the autocratic Tsarist system. The organization declared itself to be a populist movement that succeeded the Narodniks. Composed primarily of young revolutionary socialist intellectuals believing in the efficacy of direct action, Narodnaya Volya emerged in Autumn 1879 from the split of an earlier revolutionary organization called Zemlya i Volya ("Land and Liberty"). Predecessor groups had already started using the term "terror" positively and Narodnaya Volya in similar fashion self-identified as terrorists as part of a propaganda driven campaign to attract attention to their moral justifications for using political violence and their veneration of dead terrorists as "martyrs" and "heroes”.