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Writers and Terrorists: The Russian Literary Debate 1870 to 1914

A talk by Dr Arfon Rees, University of Birmingham. ---- The Russian Empire experienced an upsurge of terrorist activity in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, dramatically illustrated by the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881. Terror as a tactic of political struggle became extensively employed and emulated in other countries, most notably in the Balkans. Russian terrorism was a subject taken up by writers, most famously Dostoevsky’s The Devils, loosely based on the Nechaev affai
Monday 20 February 2017, 7.30 p.m. Admission £3.00 at the door (HA members and students free)
University of Gloucestershire Park Campus, Cheltenham (watch for direction signs on-campus) GL50 2RH
Mon 20 Feb 2017
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