LEADER 04574nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910789836003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6371-8 010 $a0-8014-6028-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460289 035 $a(CKB)2670000000080867 035 $a(OCoLC)726824196 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457563 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000486229 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11347183 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486229 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10430137 035 $a(PQKB)10946853 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137942 035 $a(DE-B1597)527059 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460289 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58407 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137942 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457563 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL769610 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000080867 100 $a20080827d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe odd man Karakozov$b[electronic resource] $eImperial Russia, modernity, and the birth of terrorism /$fClaudia Verhoeven 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (245 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-7757-3 311 $a0-8014-4652-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFrom the files of the Karakozov case : the virtual birth of terrorism -- The real Rakhmetov : the image of the revolutionary after Karakozov -- "A life for the Tsar" : tsaricide in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Raskolnikov, Karakozov, and the etiology of a "new word" -- Armiak; or, "So many things in an overcoat!" -- "Factual propaganda," an autopsy; or, The morbid origins of April 4, 1866 -- The head of the tsaricide -- Conclusion : the point of April 4, 1866. 330 $aOn 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 revolutionary political violence known as terrorism.Based on clues pulled out of the pockets of Karakozov's peasant disguise, investigators concluded that there had been a conspiracy so extensive as to have sprawled across the entirety of the Russian empire and the European continent. Karakozov was said to have been a member of "The Organization," a socialist network at the center of which sat a secret cell of suicide-assassins: "Hell." It is still unclear how much of this "conspiracy" theory was actually true, but of the thirty-six defendants who stood accused during what was Russia's first modern political trial, all but a few were exiled to Siberia, and Karakozov himself was publicly hanged on September 3, 1866. Because Karakozov was decidedly strange, sick, and suicidal, his failed act of political violence has long been relegated to a footnote of Russian history.In The Odd Man Karakozov, however, Claudia Verhoeven argues that it is precisely this neglected, exceptional case that sheds a new light on the origins of terrorism. The book not only demonstrates how the idea of terrorism first emerged from the reception of Karakozov's attack, but also, importantly, what was really at stake in this novel form of political violence, namely, the birth of a new, modern political subject. Along the way, in characterizing Karakozov's as an essentially modernist crime, Verhoeven traces how his act profoundly impacted Russian culture, including such touchstones as Repin's art and Dostoevsky's literature.By looking at the history that produced Karakozov and, in turn, the history that Karakozov produced, Verhoeven shows terrorism as a phenomenon inextricably linked to the foundations of the modern world: capitalism, enlightened law and scientific reason, ideology, technology, new media, and above all, people's participation in politics and in the making of history. 606 $aTerrorism$zRussia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPolitical violence$zRussia$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aRussia$xHistory$yAlexander II, 1855-1881 615 0$aTerrorism$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical violence$xHistory 676 $a947.08/1092 700 $aVerhoeven$b Claudia$f1972-$01511000 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789836003321 996 $aThe odd man Karakozov$93744023 997 $aUNINA