Excerpt: Many persons who are interested in the Russian question have explained to me how much they have felt the need of some authoritative information upon the true position of the different sections of the party of reform in Russia towards each other and towards the Russian Government, or, in other words, some explanation of what the aims and doctrines of the Russian Revolutionists, whether extremists or moderate men, really are.
Sergey Mikhaylovich Stepnyak-Kravchinsky (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Степняк-Кравчи́нский) was a socialist revolutionary and sometime nihilist after leaving the Russian imperial army at the rank of second lieutenant. He principally worked under the nom de guerre & de plume Sergius Stepniak