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  The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents (Paperback) By (author) Alex Butterworth

  

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  Short Description for The World That Never WasFollows the interweaving lives of several key anarchists, and of the secret police who tracked them. Framed by the Paris Commune of 1871 and the 1905 revolution in St Petersburg, and spread across five continents, theirs is the story of a generation that saw the dream of Utopia crumble, to be replaced by a dangerous desperation.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 03 March 2011
  • Format: Paperback 544 pages
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  • Categories: Anarchism | Marxism & Communism | Terrorism, Armed Struggle | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900 | Social & Cultural History
  • ISBN 13: 9780099551928 ISBN 10: 0099551926
  • Sales rank: 57,278

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• The last years of the nineteenth century saw the birth of a new phenomenon: international terrorism. Bombings and assassinations shook the great cities of Europe and America, threatening social order. Fiendish networks of anarchist conspiritors were blamed and the public whipped into a frenzy of anxiety. The reality was rather different. These dramatic events were only the most visible part of a longer, clandestine struggle waged between the forces of revolution and reaction, in which little was as it seemed. Alex Butterworth interweaves group biography, cultural history and meticulous detective work to create a revelatory account of the age. Both intimate and panoramic, it is a story with uncanny resonances for today.