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English Year 2020
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