The Phenomenon of Terrorism in “The Story of an Unknown Man” and the Echo of Chekhovian Poetics in the Prose of L. N. Andreev and T. L. Shchepkina-Kupernik
Journal: Two centuries of the Russian classics
Year: 2026

The unprecedented historical and cultural phenomenon of mass political radical terror emerged in the last third of the 19th century and manifested itself under the slogan “Propaganda of the deed” in all the leading countries of the world. The paradoxical nature of the terrorism ideologies and the logic of suicide terrorists’ antinomic behavior have aroused great interest among philosophers, physicians, psychologists, lawyers, criminologists, publicists, and writers. In the 1880s, attention to th