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
