How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism

410 Pages·2004·32.005 MB·English

by  Steven G. Marks

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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Prologue 1
CHAPTER 1.
Organizing Revolution: The Russian Terrorists 7
CHAPTER 2.
Kropotkin’s Anti-Darwinian Anarchism 38
CHAPTER 3.
Dostoevsky’s Messianic Irrationalism 58
CHAPTER 4.
Tolstoy and the Nonviolent Imperative 102
CHAPTER 5.
Destroying the Agents of Modernity:
Russian Anti-Semitism 140
CHAPTER 6.
Conveying Higher Truth Onstage:
Ballet and Theater 176
viii
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 7.
Abstract Art and the Regeneration of Mankind 228
CHAPTER 8.
The Dream of Communism 275
CHAPTER 9.
Communism and the New Forms of Dictatorship 299
Epilogue 333
Notes 337
Index 381