Pale Horse: A Novel of Revolutionary Russia

Categories: Literature & Fiction

A short novel by Boris Savinkov, first published in 1909 under the pseudonym V. Ropshin and drawn from his own experience leading a terrorist cell in the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party. Written as the diary of a revolutionary planning the assassination of a governor-general, it explores the psychology and moral cost of political terror.

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• Winston Churchill: “In his novel, The Pale Horse, written under an assumed name, Savinkov has described with brutal candor the part he played in the murders of M. de Plehve and the Grand Duke Serge.”