{"id":35659,"date":"2026-07-14T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/?p=35659"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:30:42","slug":"new-publication-lonny-harrison-publishes-personas-of-revolutionary-terror-in-russian-fiction-and-memoirs-from-dostoevsky-to-zenzinov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/new-publication-lonny-harrison-publishes-personas-of-revolutionary-terror-in-russian-fiction-and-memoirs-from-dostoevsky-to-zenzinov\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication! Lonny Harrison publishes Personas of Revolutionary Terror in Russian Fiction and Memoirs from Dostoevsky to Zenzinov"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What turns idealists into assassins? Personas of Revolutionary Terror <\/em>explores the lives, writings, and public images of Russia\u2019s revolutionary terrorists before 1917, tracing how self-sacrifice and violence fused into a compelling revolutionary identity. Drawing on memoirs, fiction, and archival sources, this study uncovers how young, educated radicals crafted a mystique that inspired sympathy\u2014even as they turned to bullets and bombs. Bridging literary criticism, history, and political thought, it examines how the revolutionary persona emerged from heroic myth, moral conviction, and nihilist fervor, ultimately shaping modern terrorism\u2019s cultural script. In an era marked by political violence, this book offers an urgent reflection on the entanglement of idealism, identity, and the destructive power of belief.<\/p>\n

Personas of Revolutionary Terror in Russian Fiction and Memoirs from Dostoevsky to Zenzinov<\/h3>\n

Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History<\/a><\/p>\n

by Lonny Harrison<\/a><\/p>\n

Published by: Academic Studies Press<\/a><\/p>\n

Imprint: Academic Studies Press<\/a><\/p>\n

Language: English<\/p>\n

Sales Date: 2026-02-24<\/p>\n

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What turns idealists into assassins? Personas of Revolutionary Terror explores the lives, writings, and public images of Russia\u2019s revolutionary terrorists before 1917, tracing how self-sacrifice and violence fused into a compelling revolutionary identity. Drawing on memoirs, fiction, and archival sources, this study uncovers how young, educated radicals crafted a mystique that inspired sympathy\u2014even as they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":35660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[45,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freshly-published","category-member-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35664,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35659\/revisions\/35664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}