George Gilbert is a Lecturer in Twentieth-Century History at the University of Southampton, UK.
"'The book includes a helpful glossary of rightist individuals and organizations and a detailed map of the Pale of Settlement... the book greatly increases our knowledge of the Russian right.' Jonathan Daly, University of Illinois at Chicago, Slavonic and East European Review ""The author illustrates the transformative and independent vision of Russia’s spiritual and moral renewal within civic associations, such as the Double-Headed Eagle and the Union of Russian Working Men in Kiev, by the cultural campaigns which consisted in involvement in the temperance movement, creation of student branches, engagement in workers’ education and concentration on the role of women in society."" Joanna Rak, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, Studies in the History of Russia and Central and Eastern Europe (Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej)"