Short story or play about Russian nihilists or revolutionaries

Mon Sep 16 13:57:54 UTC 2013

Dear colleagues:

I would like to find a short work in English translation about Russian revolutionaries, radicalism or terrorism dating from the late 19C. This is for a cultural history/social history course that I teach in which I alternate between lecture and discussion modes and place short works into historical context—it's for the "terror and revolution" week. I would love to find a short anti-nihilist work (as opposed to the big anti-nihilist novels, which are too long for my purposes), or an anti-nihilist play (I've used Tolstoy's "Infected Family," but it's so lacking in literary merits that I want to get away from it). Suggestions? 

kp

Kevin M. F. Platt 
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities
University of Pennsylvania 

kmfplatt at sas.upenn.edu 
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic/faculty/platt.htm

T: 215-908-1685; F: 215-573-7794

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