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Just Assassins is an engrossing collection of fourteen original essays that illuminate terrorism as it has occurred in Russian culture past and present. The broad range of writers and scholars have contributed work that examines Russian literature, film, and theater; historical narrative; and even amateur memoir, songs, and poetry posted on the Internet. Along with editor Anthony Anemone’s introduction, these essays chart the evolution of modern political terrorism in Russia, from the Decembrist uprising to the horrific school siege in Beslan in 2004.

As terrorism and the fear of terrorism continues to animate, shape, and deform public policy and international relations across the globe, Just Assassins brings into focus how Russia’s cultural engagement with its legacy of terrorism offers instructive lessons and insights for anyone concerned about political terror.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. vii
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  1. Editor’s Note
  2. p. ix
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  1. Introduction: Just Assassins?
  2. pp. 3-23
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  1. Historical Models of Terror in Decembrist Literature
  2. pp. 25-52
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  1. All of a Sudden: Dostoevsky’s Demonologies of Terror
  2. pp. 53-72
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  1. Fool or Saint? Writers Reading the Zasulich Case
  2. pp. 73-95
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  1. The Terrorist as Novelist: Sergei Stepniak- Kravchinsky
  2. pp. 97-126
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  1. The Spiridonova Case, 1906: Terror, Myth, and Martyrdom
  2. pp. 127-162
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  1. The Byronic Terrorist: Boris Savinkov’s Literary Self- Mythologization
  2. pp. 163-189
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  1. Andrei Bely’s Petersburg and the Dynamics of Political Response
  2. pp. 191-208
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  1. Exile’s Vengeance: Trotsky and the Morality of Terrorism
  2. pp. 209-228
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  1. The Afterlife of Terrorists: Commemorating the People’s Will in Early Soviet Russia
  2. pp. 229-246
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  1. “Everyone Here Was Carrying Out Orders”: Songs of War and Terror in Chechnya
  2. pp. 247-260
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  1. Narrating Terror: The Face and Place of Violence in Valery Todorovsky’s My Stepbrother Frankenstein
  2. pp. 261-276
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  1. Stage(d) Terrorism
  2. pp. 277-296
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  1. Russia’s 9/11: Performativity and Discursive Instability in Television Coverage of the Beslan Atrocity
  2. pp. 297-316
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  1. Afterword: Russia, a Revolutionary Life
  2. pp. 317-326
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 327-329
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