Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries Gebunden

The contributors look at the crisis-ridden processes of modernity through the prism of individual biographies which manifest themselves in national and social anti-imperial and de-colonial global and regional movements. The contributions cover the Russian Habsburg and Ottoman Empires Germany the USA France the Soviet Union Iran Poland Turkey and Africa. They focus on transnational and trans-imperial life paths networks and the imprints of the actors as well as forms of (auto)biographical self-constitution and the political use of biographical narratives.A new view on already-known and recently-discovered revolutionary biographies