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

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

Patyk, Lynn Ellen

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral World HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 0299312208
ISBN13: 9780299312206
Publisher: Univ Of Wisconsin Pr
Published: Jun 20 2017
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 terrorists assassinated the Tsar-Liberator, Alexander II. Horrified Russians blamed the influence of European political and social ideas, while shocked Europeans perceived something new and distinctly Russian in a strategy of political violence that became known the world over as terrorism or the Russian method.

Lynn Ellen Patyk contends that the prototype for the terrorist was the Russian writer, whose seditious word was interpreted as an audacious deed-and a violent assault on autocratic authority. The interplay and interchangeability of word and deed, Patyk argues, laid the semiotic groundwork for the symbolic act of violence at the center of revolutionary terrorism. While demonstrating how literary culture fostered the ethos, pathos, and image of the revolutionary terrorist and terrorism, she spotlights Fyodor Dostoevsky and his terrorism trilogy-Crime and Punishment (1866), Demons (1870-73), and The Brothers Karamazov (1878-80)-as novels that uniquely illuminate terrorism's methods and trajectory. Deftly combining riveting historical narrative with penetrating literary analysis of major and minor works, Patyk's groundbreaking book reveals the power of the word to spawn deeds and the power of literature to usher new realities into the world.

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