Document Type
Podcast
Duration
01:04:23
Publication Date
5-20-2008
Journal, Book or Conference Title
New Books in History
Abstract
John Randolph, assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is our guest on the show this week. His book The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism (Cornell University Press, 2007) has just appeared. As a sometime Russian historian myself, I was very interested in reading the book. I knew a bit about Mikhail Bakunin, the Russian anarchist famous for running around nineteenth-century Europe fomenting revolution, but I knew virtually nothing about his family. I'd guess the same is true of many of you. John traces the Bakunins from their earliest days to the mid-nineteenth century, and along the way significantly revises the history of Russian radicalism in the period. The book is a model for historians who wish to weave together the private and the public, the personal and the political, the familial and the social. Highly recommended.
Keywords
Family Life, Intellectuals, Intelligentsia, Politics, Radicalism, Russia, Soviet Union
Rights
Copyright © 2008 New Books In History
URL
http://ir.uiowa.edu/history_nbih/11