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Cover -- Revolutionary Philanthropy : Aid to Political Prisoners and Exiles in Late Imperial Russia -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Maps -- Terms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Looking Backward: The Genesis of Aid to Political Prisoners -- Origins of Forms and Practices of Aid -- Political Philanthropy or Revolutionary Humanitarianism -- Outline -- PART I: Precedents and Origins: The Deep Roots of Aid to Prisoners and Exiles -- 1: From Charity to Subversion: The Deep Roots of Aid to Prisoners and Exiles -- Prison Philanthropy in the Early 1800s -- The Heroic Exile in the House of the Dead -- The Radicalization of Mutual Aid -- The Stillborn First Child: The Curious History of the  Vspomogatel'nyi Fond -- 2: Outrage and Empathy: Revolutionary Philanthropy and the Origins of a Political "Red Cross" -- The Red Cross as Model and Foil -- The Origins of a "Political" Red Cross -- Building Support: Empathy and Justice -- Administrative Exile and Liberal Public Opinion -- PART II: The Revolutionary Underground: The Rise and Fall of the Red Cross of the People's Will -- 3: Terror and Philanthropy: The Rise and Fall of the Red Cross of the People's Will -- Before the Cataclysm -- The "Siberian Red Cross" -- The Short Ascendancy of the Red Cross of the People's Will -- The KKNV's Rapid Downfall -- The Red Cross of the Polish Proletariat -- Beyond the Red Cross of the People's Will -- 4: Time Once Again: The Curious Persistence of Political Aid across the Russian Empire -- Prisoner Aid in Moscow after the Demise of the KKNV -- The Petersburg OPPSiZ after the Blue Cross -- Provincial Aid Groups through the 1880s -- PART II: Émigrés and Foreign Publics: The "Foreign Branch" of the Red Cross of the People's Will -- 5: Political Philanthropy Goes Abroad: The "Foreign Branch" of the Red Cross of the People's Will.

Turning to the Outside for Help -- Grandiose Plans for Amelioration -- Establishing a Red Cross Abroad -- Publicity, Reprisals, and Disappointment -- 6: Russian Émigrés and Western Sympathizers through the 1880s -- The Anarchist Prince Barnstorms Britain -- Small Accounts but Broadened Reach -- The Arrest of Kropotkin and Efforts Redirected -- The End (of the Beginning) of the "Foreign Branch" -- A Posthumous Italian Coda -- Epilogue and Conclusion -- Philanthropic Subterfuge as Liminal Activity -- One and Many (Political) Red Crosses -- The Legacy of Help from Afar -- Appendix 1: Outline of Selected Domestic Groups and Organizations to Aid Political Prisoners and Exiles, late 1870s to early 1890s -- Informal "Red Cross" Groups, Mid-1870s to 1881 -- Society of the Red Cross of the People's Will ( Krasnyi krest narodnoi voli, KKNV) -- Moscow (Center) -- St. Petersburg -- Tomsk (aka Siberian Red Cross) -- Kazan -- Odesa -- Krasnoiarsk -- Irkutsk -- St. Petersburg Society for Aid to Political Exiles and Prisoners ( Obshchestvo pomoshchi politicheskim ssyl'nym i zakliuchennym, OPPSiZ) -- Initial Manifestation -- First Transition -- Second Transition -- Third (Gradual) Transition -- Later Efforts in St. Petersburg -- Moscow Society for Aid to Political Exiles and Prisoners ( Obshchestvo pomoshchi politicheskim ssyl'nym i zakliuchennym, OPPSiZ) -- Initial Manifestation -- Transition, Group One -- Transition, Group Two Part One -- Transition, Group Two Part Two -- Transition, Group Three -- Appendix 2: Glossary of Individuals Involved with Aid to Political Prisoners and Exiles -- Bibliography -- Archival Collections Consulted -- Periodicals and Serial Publications -- Gendarmerie reports on political crimes -- Selected contemporary newspapers and journals -- Russian -- English -- French -- German -- Italian -- Polish.

Historical Journals and Scholarly Serial Publications (with both primary and secondary materials) -- Bio-bibliographic Dictionaries of the Revolutionary Movement -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index.

The first book in any language to provide a comprehensive portrait of the origins of aid to political prisoners and exiles in late nineteenth-century Russia, showing how a series of aid organizations emerged from the nascent radical liberationist movement of the 1870s-80s.