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A thrilling history of the rise of anarchism, told through the stories of a number of prominent revolutionaries and the agents of the secret police who pursued them. In the late nineteenth century, nations the world over were mired in economic recession and beset by social unrest, their leaders increasingly threatened by acts of terrorism and assassination from anarchist extremists. In this riveting history of that tumultuous period, Alex Butterworth follows the rise of these revolutionaries from the failed Paris Commune of 1871 to the 1905 Russian Revolution and beyond. Through the interwoven stories of several key anarchists and the secret police who tracked and manipulated them, Butterworth explores how the anarchists were led to increasingly desperate acts of terrorism and murder. Rich in anecdote and with a fascinating array of supporting characters, The World That Never Was is a masterly exploration of the strange twists and turns of history, taking readers on a journey that spans five continents, from the capitals of Europe to a South Pacific penal colony to the heartland of America. It tells the story of a generation that saw its utopian dreams crumble into dangerous desperation and offers a revelatory portrait of an era with uncanny echoes of our own.

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Timeline Date 1853 France Russia Birth of Peter Rachkovsky Britain - photo 1
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Date: 1853

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Russia: Birth of Peter Rachkovsky

Britain: Great Exhibition: Reclus, Stieber in London; Wylds Globe dominates Leicester Square

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Date: 1858

France: Reclus returns to Paris from his travels in America

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Germany: Stieber recruited by de Mohrenheim in Berlin

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Russia: Alexander IIs edict freeing the serfs

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Date: 1862

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Russia: Kropotkin posted to Irkutsk in Siberia at his own request; nihilist coined in Fathers and Sons; Zemlya i Volya, Land and Liberty

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Russia: Chernyshevsky What is to be Done?; Stieber taken back to Prussia by Bismarck to head the police

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Date: 1864

France: Reclus brothers found a co-op (First in Paris); Joly publishes Dialogues from Brussels

Russia: Kropotkin expedition to Siberia and Amur Valley

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Other European: IWMA founded

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Date: 1865

France: Death of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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Britain: Bakunin, having escaped from Siberian exile, visits Marx in London

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United States: End of American Civil War

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Other European: Attempt on life of Alexander II by Karakozov; Ferdinand Cohen-Blind attempts to assassinate Bismarck

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Other: Nobel takes out patent on dynamite

Date: 1867

France: Paris Expo: World Exhibition attack on Alexander II by Berezowski; Reclus has become member of the International

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Other: End of disastrous French involvement in Mexico with execution of Maximilien

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Switzerland: Berne Congress of Peace and Freedom; first Russian woman takes medical diploma; Peter Lavrov publishes HistoricalLetters urging educated youth to provide political enlightenment to the peasantry

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Date: 1869

France: Rochefort, as deputy, campaigns for universal conscription in France

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Other European: Nechaev meets Bakunin in Switzerland; The RevolutionaryCatechism

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Date: 1870

France:Jan: Noir funeral

July: Ems telegram; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea published

19 July: Declaration of War

2 Sept: Defeat and capture of Napoleon III at Sedan

4 Sept: Hotel de Ville declaration

7 Oct: Balloon flight of Gambetta out of Paris; declaration by Bakunin of a commune in Lyons; failed attack from Tours

27 Dec: German bombardment of Paris begins

Russia: Tsar concerned what republican France might mean for European monarchies

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Other European: Vatican council rules Pope infallible in matters of doctrine

December: Cesare Lombroso enjoys revelation of criminal atavism

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Date: 1871

France:Jan: Armed stand-off between Breton soldiers and Flourens radicals around the Hotel de Ville

18 March: Failed attempt to seize National Guard guns at Montmartre and elsewhere precipitates government withdrawal to Versailles

28 March: Declaration of Paris Commune

22 May: Bloody Week massacres of Communards as Versaillais troops retake Paris

Russia: Trial of Nechaevists

July: Genesis of what would become the Chaikovsky Circle during rural study retreat

Britain: Marx writing The Civil War in France; Bulwer Lytton, The Coming Race; Darwin publishes The Descent of Man; Hyndman, as fellow of Magdalen College, visits Commune; Carpenter travels to France and is arrested by Prussians; flight of Communards; London Congress: Marxists investigation of Bakunin and Nechaev

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Germany: Coronation at Versailles of Wilhelm I of Prussia as kaiser of united Germany; Pius IX of Commune: devils risen up

Switzerland: Foundation of the Bakuninist Jura Federation, headed by Guillaume

Oct: St-Imier anti-authoritarian congress

United States: Knights of Labour started at tailors meeting in Philadelphia

Oct: Fire destroys much of Chicago

Other:18 Jan: German Empire declared; union of German States

1 March: German triumphal march through Paris

Date: 1872

France: Military tribunal to try Communards continues, amid transportations to New Caledonia

Russia: Kropotkin and Kravchinsky join Chaikovsky Circle; Dostoevsky publishes The Devils

Britain: Communards sleeping rough in London parks

Other European:Feb: Kropotkin arrives in Switzerland

14 March: Reclus arrives in Switzerland

United States: Andrew Carnegie begins revolution in steel manufacture

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Date: 1873

France:23 May: General MacMahon becomes president of Third Republic; Michel and Rochefort deported

Sept: War indemnity to Germany paid off early

Russia:Summer: Mass movement of young radicals go to the people during Mad Summer with many arrests in coming two years; Koroptkin works on his draft

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