Just assassins : the culture of terrorism in Russia / edited and with an introduction by Anthony Anemone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anemone, Anthony.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism--Russia (Federation)--History.

Terrorism.

Terrorism in literature.

Terrorism and mass media--Russia (Federation)--History.

Terrorism and mass media.

Russian literature--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

History.

Russia (Federation)--Social conditions.

Russia (Federation).

Social conditions.

Russia (Federation)--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

ix, 329 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2010.

Contents:

Historical models of terror in Decembrist literature / Ludmilla A. Trigos

All of a sudden : Dostoevsky's demonologies of terror / Val Vinokur

Fool or saint? Writers reading the Zasulich case / Donna Oliver

The terrorist as novelist : Sergei Stepniak-Kravchinsky / Peter Scotto

The Spiridonova case, 1906 : terror, myth, and martyrdom / Sally A. Boniece

The Byronic terrorist : Boris Savinkov's literary self-mythologization / Lynn Ellen Patyk

Andrei Bely's Petersburg and the dynamics of political response / Timothy Langen

Exile's vengeance : Trotsky and the morality of terrorism / Martin A. Miller

The afterlife of terrorists : commemorating the people's will in early Soviet Russia / James Frank Goodwin

"Everyone here was carrying out orders" : songs of war and terror in Chechnya / Anna Brodsky

Narrating terror : the face and place of violence in Valery Todorovsky's My stepbrother

Frankenstein / Brian James Baer

Stage(d) terrorism / Birgit Beumers

Russia's 9/11 : performativity and discursive instability in television coverage of the Beslan atrocity / Stephen Hutchings

Afterword : Russia, a revolutionary life / Nina L. Khrushcheva.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780810126923

0810126923

OCLC:

428027837