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Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 [3]
 9781400844234

Table of contents :
List of Illustrations ix

Preface xi

Transliteration and Texts xv

PART I: A TIME OF HOPE

Chapter 1: Introduction 3

Chapter 2: Exile’s Return 8

Chapter 3: “A Bit of Liberty, A Bit of Freedom” 22

Chapter 4: A New Movement: Pochvennichestvo 34

Chapter 5: Into the Fray 48

Chapter 6: Petersburg Visions 64

Chapter 7: An Aesthetics of Transcendence 76

Chapter 8: Polemical Skirmishes 94

Chapter 9: The Insulted and Injured 110

PART II: THE ERA OF PROCLAMATIONS

Chapter 10: The First Leaflets 133

Chapter 11: Young Russia 145

Chapter 12: Portrait of a Nihilist 160

Chapter 13: “The Land of Holy Wonders” 179

Chapter 14: Time: The Final Months 197

Chapter 15: House of the Dead 213

Chapter 16: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions 233

PART III: POLINA

Chapter 17: An Emancipated Woman 251

Chapter 18: A Tormented Lover 268

PART IV: THE PRISON OF UTOPIA

Chapter 19: Epoch 283

Chapter 20: “Will I Ever See Masha Again?” 296

Chapter 21: Notes from Underground 310

Chapter 22: The End of Epoch 348

Chapter 23: “The Vitality of a Cat” 367

Abbreviations 377

Notes 379

Index 389

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