Short story or play about Russian nihilists or revolutionaries

Elena Gapova e.gapova at GMAIL.COM
Mon Sep 16 15:17:43 UTC 2013


"Статский советник" by Boris Akunin, where Fandorin investigates a
terrorist plot (looks like 1880s or a bit later). This is a book, so it is
not short, but there is a movie version. Two hours of fun.

Elena Gapova




2013/9/16 Alice Nakhimovsky <asnakhimovsky at colgate.edu>

> Tom Stoppard's Utopia trilogy. Written in English.
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>
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Nataliya Kun <nk2543 at columbia.edu>wrote:
>
>> Dear Professor Platt,
>>
>> You may find Leskov's <<Путешествие с нигилистом>> (A Journey with a
>> Nihilist) interesting.  I think it was published in the book
>> "Satirical Stories of Nikolai Leskov."  It may be considered
>> anti-nihilist in a very peculiar way.  A great example of Leskov's
>> irony and very short!
>>
>> Nataliya
>>
>>
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>> Lecturer, Columbia University
>> Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
>> 715 Hamilton Hall
>> New York, NY, 10027
>> nk2543 at columbia.edu
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