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Written in Blood : Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture, 1861-1881 /

Written in Blood offers a fundamentally new interpretation of the emergence of modern terrorism, arguing that it formed in the Russian literary imagination well before any shot was fired or bomb exploded. In March 1881, Russia stunned the world when a small band of revolutionaries calling themselves...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Patyk, Lynn Ellen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Prologue: "Just You Wait! (Uzho tebe!)"
  • Part 1: Enigmas of A-synchrony. What do Nihilists do? ; "Very dangerous!" ; Extraordinary men and gloomy monsters ; "Daring and original things" (Assez cause!) ; "Vous trouvez que l'assassinat est grandeur d'âme?" ; Spoiling one idea to save another ; A gloomier catechism
  • Part 2: Apparitional terrorism in demons. "Again, like before" ; "The only possible explanation of all these wonders" ; Tarantulas with a heart? ; Dostoevsky's counterterrorism : "The first step" ; Dostoevsky's counterterrorism (Continued) : Laughter through fear ; The unity of all terrorism(s)
  • Part 3: "The little devil sitting in your heart". A change of heart ; An original pan ; Emotions on trial : witness testimony and the prosecution ; Emotions on trial II : the defense ; Whose rebellion? ; False Christs and little devils ; "That is the whole answer" ; The Khokhlakova Principle : Russian society in the mirror of revolutionary terrorism ; Again, like before (again)
  • Part 4: The beautiful dead (Deed). Writing in blood ; An icon with death ; Celebrity icons ; Terror in search of a face
  • Epilogue: "All of Europe thrills to the horror."