Browsing Sociology by Author "Verhoeven, Claudia"

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The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism

Verhoeven, Claudia (Cornell University Press, 2011)

On April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg's Summer Garden and onto the boulevard, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and shot at the tsar. He missed, but his "unheard-of ...