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

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Anemone, Anthony.
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.
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ISBN:
0-8101-6478-7
OCLC:
768341824

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