Books or texts on the history of nihilism in Russia?

Question

I'm curious if anyone knows of any interesting reads on nihilism in Russia. Perhaps something that describes the history of it and what not.

Answer 1

the book i have is called Five Sisters, women against the tsar.

https://www.powells.com/biblio/9780415907156

this is not a standard history book: it doesn't give much overview or contextualization. it's a collection of excerpts from the memoirs of five nihilist women who were all amazing.

(they weren't, by the way, anarchist--at least not all of them. at least one nihiilist group was judgmental of anarchists in the US who had the right to vote and were still being so violent... (lol). )

Answer 2

(edited and expanded from a comment)
Here is the first thing that springs to mind:
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aragorn-nihilism-anarchy-and-the-21st-century

In this Aragorn! first traces the historic development of the Russian Nihilists, and then explores relationship of nihilism to the socialism of the same era. It concludes with a jump to the present, and has a follow up piece that I highly suggest:
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aragorn-anarchy-and-nihilism-consequences

They are both available for free via the links I've provided, or you could get a print copy (it's very pretty) of both published under the name BOOM from Little Black Cart http://littleblackcart.com/books/boom/

Comments

Thanks. Is there a particular order in which one should read those or does it not really matter?

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it doesn't matter

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is that a nihilism joke? :)

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what i would like to know is who is this mysterious Aragorn!, swooping through the trees, making love to all my beautiful women?!

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everything is a nihilist joke.

 

and we all want to know that, rs666...