Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments xi A Note on the Text xiii Introduction 3 Part I—Contact with Catholics in the Journeys East and West Chapter One Silencing Catholic Revolutionaries in House of the Dead 23 Chapter Two The Generation of Dostoevsky’s Catholic Types in the 1860s 54 Part II—The Catholic Dimension to Dostoevsky’s Russian Revolutionaries Chapter Three The Casuistry of Revolutionaries in Crime and Punishment 85 Chapter Four Dostoevsky’s Portrayal of Transnational Catholicism in Demons 114 Part III—The Catholic Reformation in The Brothers Karamazov Chapter Five Old Catholicism and the Revolutionary Inquisitor 147 Chapter Six Roman vs. Russian Justice in The Brothers Karamazov and the Diary 172 Conclusion 198 Notes 211 Bibliography 267 Index 285 ...