
Confronting Dostoevsky's «Demons»
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Confronting Dostoevsky's 'Demons' is the first book to explore the life of Dostoevsky's novel in light of disputes and controversies over Bakunin's troubling legacy in Russia. Contrary to the traditional view, which assumes the obsolescence of Demons throughout much of the Communist period (1917-1991), this book demonstrates that the potential resurgence of Bakuninist thought actually encouraged reassessments of Dostoevsky's novel. By exploring the different ideas and critical strategies that motivated opposing interpretations of the novel in post-revolutionary Russia, Confronting Dostoevsky's 'Demons' reveals how the potential resurrection of Bakunin's anti-authoritarian ethos fostered the return of a politically reactionary novel to the canon of Russian classics.
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- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments vii
- A Note on Transliteration, Dates, Translation and References ix
- Introduction: Dostoevsky's Demons as Polemic 1
- 1. "The Worse, the Better.": Dostoevsky's Demons and the Politics of Despair 9
- A Conspiracy of Non-Equals 10
- The Nechaev "Type" and the New Nihilism 17
- From Herzen to Bakunin: Demons and the Russian Revolutionary Emigration 22
- 2. Demons and the "Bakuninist" Context of the Bolshevik Revolution 33
- Sacred Flame of Revolt: Bakunin as Hero and Demon 34
- Bakunin's Legacy in Revolution, 1905-1921 42
- Bakunin Prostrate 50
- 3. Leonid Grossman's Art of Scholarly Provocation 65
- Post-revolutionary Demons 65
- Grossman on Stavrogin and Bakunin 71
- Demons under Scrutiny 81
- Grossman's Discoveries in Retrospect 87
- 4. In Defense of Bakunin: Aleksei Borovoi and the Anarchist Conception of Demons 101
- Russian Anarchism and the Bakuninist Legacy after 1917 102
- Liberating Bakunin from Demons 109
- Anarchism's Last Stand: The Bakunin Jubilee of 1926 116
- 5. Viacheslav Polonsky and the Marxist Struggle over Bakunin's Legacy 129
- Stavrogin, Dostoevsky and Political Acumen 130
- Bakunin as Revolutionary Romantic 136
- At the Gates of the Bolshevik Pantheon 147
- 6. Suppressing Demons in Stalin's Russia 157
- Grossman Vindicated 158
- Vigilance Toward Dostoevshchina 163
- Anarchism and the Triumph of Demons in Late Soviet Analysis 175
- 7. Toward New Confrontations 183
- Notes 189
- Index 243
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