The Odd Man Karakozov : : Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism / / Claudia Verhoeven.
On April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg's Summer Garden and onto the boulevard, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and shot at the tsar. He missed, but his "unheard-of act" changed the course of Russian history-and gave birth to the r...
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Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration, Translation, Dates, and Dramatis Personae
- Introduction
- 1. From the Files of the Karakozov Case: The Virtual Birth of Terrorism
- 2. The Real Rakhmetov: The Image of the Revolutionary after Karakozov
- 3. "A Life for the Tsar": Tsaricide in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- 4. Raskolnikov, Karakozov, and the Etiology of a "New Word"
- 5. Armiak; or "So Many Things in an Overcoat!"
- 6. "Factual Propaganda," an Autopsy; or, the Morbid Origins of April 4, 1866
- 7. The Head of the Tsaricide
- Conclusion: The Point of April 4, 1866
- Appendixes
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index