“By tracing the complex lives of Charushin and his generation Eklof and Saburova have made an important contribution to the history of Russian society in the volatile years before and after 1917.”
 — The Russian Review

“ A Generation of Revolutionaries will be of value to all historians interested in the longue durée of the Russian Revolution. It deserves to be read widely.”
 — Slavonic and East European Review

“The book is engagingly written and well sourced, the product of extensive archival research, including in provincial Russian archives. . . . Highly recommended. ”
 — Choice

“This excellent work deserves a broad audience.”
 — The Russian Review

“Anyone interested in digging deeper into some of the less-examined facets of late imperial and early Soviet Russia will be well rewarded by this wide-ranging generational study.”
 — American Historical Review

“This richly researched and compelling study situates the Populists not only in the revolutionary movement of the 1870s and 1880s but also reintegrates them into the wider history of Russia.”
 — Slavic Review

“This is certainly a book in Russian studies in which new archives matter. The encounter of new material and old archetypes of the radical populist intelligentsia offers readers insight at every turn. ”
 — American Historical Review

“This is a powerful piece of scholarship that will stand for a long time. It transcends previous conceptions of what a history of Populism should be and demonstrates how biography can open doors to so much more than the life of a single individual. ”
 — Ab Imperio