Kistiakovsky - The Struggle for National and Constitutional Rights in the Last Years of Tsarism

Kistiakovsky railed against Lenin’s concept of a vanguard party to lead the revolution and advocated a government based on respect for human rights and constitutional federalism. Heuman shows the fresh urgency of Kistiakovsky’s ideas as countries of the former Soviet Union seek to establish precisely those values that he put forth 90 years ago.