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Just Assassins : the culture of terrorism in Russia / edited and with an introduction by Anthony Anemone.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russian literature--History and criticism.
- Russian literature.
- Terrorism and mass media--Russia (Federation)--History.
- Terrorism and mass media.
- Terrorism in literature.
- Terrorism--Russia (Federation)--History.
- Terrorism.
- Russia (Federation)--Politics and government.
- Russia (Federation).
- Russia (Federation)--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 329 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2010]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Just Assassins examines terrorism as it's manifested in Russian culture past and present, with essays devoted to Russian literature, film, and theater; historical narrative; and even amateur memoir, songs, and poetry posted on the Internet.
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-6478-7
- OCLC:
- 768341824
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