Description

In the late-nineteenth century, countries around the world were embedded in economic recession and beset by social unrest, their commanders significantly endangered by acts of terrorism and murder from anarchist extremists. In this captivating record of the tumultuous time, Alex Butterworth uses the increase of those revolutionaries from the unsuccessful Paris Commune of 1871 for the 1905 Russian Revolution and beyond. Through they were hunted by the secret police who and the intertwined tales of many crucial anarchists, Butterworth strongly explains what sort of movement created in idealism switched significantly to desperate acts of killing and terrorism. Full of anecdote and with an amazing variety of supporting people, The Planet That Never Was provides a revelatory portrait of a period with uncanny echoes of our very own.