Confronting Dostoevsky's Demons : anarchism and the specter of Bakunin in twentieth-century Russia / James Goodwin.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Goodwin, James, 1962-

Contributor:

• Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Series:

• Middlebury studies in Russian language and literature ; v. 33.
• Middlebury studies in Russian language and literature ; v. 33

Language:

• English
• Russian

Subjects (All):

• Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Criticism and interpretation.
• Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 1814-1876.
• Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.
• Anarchism in literature.
• Criticism and interpretation.
• Russia--Intellectual life--1801-1917.
• Russia.
• Intellectual life.
• Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 1814-1876--Influence.
• Russian literature--19th century--History and criticism.
• Russian literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 251 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2010]

Language Note:

Contains passages translated from Russian to English, with some words and phrases in the original Russian.

Contents:

• Introduction: Dostoevsky's Demons as polemic
• "The worse, the better
• ": Dostoevsky's Demons and the politics of despair
• Demons and the "Bakuninist" context of the Bolshevik Revolution
• Leonid Grossman's art of scholarly provocation
• In defense of Bakunin: Aleksei Borovoi and the anarchist conception of Demons
• Viacheslav Polonsky and the Marxist struggle over Bakunin's legacy
• Suppressing Demons in Stalin's Russia
• Toward new confrontations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

• 9781433108839
• 1433108836

OCLC:

444113703

Publisher Number:

99937294569

Online:

The Hazel M. Hussong Fund Home Page