The Great Cossack: The Rebellion of Sten'ka Razin against Alexis Michaelovitch, Tsar of All the Russias

London: Hubert Jenkins Limited. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good in fair dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. DJ, in a plastic sleeve, has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. Previous owners name on title page.. 125 p. Includes: illustrations, bibliography. Frontis. From Wikipedia: "Stepan (Sten'ka) Timofeyevich Razin (1630 June 16, 1671) was a Cossack leader who led a major uprising against the nobility and Tsar's bureaucracy in South Russia. He is first noted by history in 1661, as part of a diplomatic mission from the Don Cossacks to the Kalmyks. Razin's first considerable exploit was to destroy the great naval convoy consisting of the treasury barges and the barges of the Patriarch and the wealthy merchants of Moscow. At the beginning of 1668 he defeated the voivode Yakov Bezobrazov, sent against him from Astrakhan, and in the spring embarked on a predatory expedition into Daghestan and Persia, which lasted for eighteen months....Razin originally set out to loot villages, but as he became a symbol of peasant unrest, his movement turned political. [14] Razin wanted to protect the independence of the Cossacks and to protest an increasingly centralized government. The Cossacks supported the tsar and autocracy, but they wanted a tsar that responded to the needs of the people and not just those of the upper class. By destroying and pillaging villages, Razin intended to take power from the government officials and give more autonomy to the peasants. However, Razin's movement failed and the rebellion led to increased government control."