Conceived as a 'novel-pamphlet', this is a book in which the author intended to 'say everything' about Russia's liberal reformers, whom he loathed - particularl... » 

Conceived as a 'novel-pamphlet', this is a book in which the author intended to 'say everything' about Russia's liberal reformers, whom he loathed - particularly the group of anti-Czarist political terrorists known as Nihilists. During the winter of 1869 this group, in the course of plotting destruction, murdered one of their own. «