books.google.com - In this magisterial and exciting book, Ulam offers a brilliant history of Russian political and intellectual life in those critical years from 1855 to 1884 and describes the successive conspiracies that shook the edifice of tsarist autocracy....http://books.google.com/books/about/Prophets_and_Conspirators_in_Pre_Revolut.html?id=DyG7grlbDQcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareProphets and Conspirators in Pre-Revolutionary Russia