Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture, 1861-1881

by Lynn Ellen Patyk

Book Overview

Written in Blood offers a fundamentally new interpretation of the emergence of modern terrorism, arguing that it formed in the Russian literary imagination well before any shot was fired or bomb exploded. Lynn Ellen Patyk contends that the prototype for the terrorist was the Russian writer, whose seditious word was interpreted as an audacious deed-and a violent assault on autocratic authority. Deftly combining riveting historical narrative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299312240
• ISBN13: 9780299312244
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"