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The odd man Karakozov [[electronic resource] ] : Imperial Russia, modernity, and the birth of terrorism / / Claudia Verhoeven



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Autore: Verhoeven Claudia <1972-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The odd man Karakozov [[electronic resource] ] : Imperial Russia, modernity, and the birth of terrorism / / Claudia Verhoeven Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
Disciplina: 947.08/1092
Soggetto topico: Terrorism - Russia - History - 19th century
Political violence - Russia - History - 19th century
Soggetto geografico: Russia History Alexander II, 1855-1881
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: From 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The odd man Karakozov  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8014-6371-8
0-8014-6028-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910789836003321
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