Confronting Dostoevsky's demons
Subtitle: anarchism and the specter of Bakunin in twentieth-century Russia
By: James Goodwin.
Series: Middlebury studies in Russian language and literature -- v. 33
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433108839
Subjects: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, -- 1821-1881 -- Criticism and interpretation; Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, -- 1814-1876 -- Influence; Anarchism in literature; Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Russia -- Intellectual life -- 1801-1917
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dostoevsky's demons as polemic; title: "The worse, the better...": Dostoevsky's demons and the politics of despair; title: Demons and the "Bakuninist" context of the Bolshevik Revolution; title: Leonid Grossman's art of scholarly provocation; title: In defense of Bakunin: Aleksei Borovoi and the anarchist conception of demons; title: Viacheslav Polonsky and the Marxist struggle over Bakunin's legacy; title: Suppressing demons in Stalin's Russia.